sns@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (03/11/87)
As any of you who have IBM Xenix 2.00, it does not come with the man pages. I am trying to organize an effort to input them. I will make the final results available to the general public. I have already inputted about 30 of the man pages. I am looking for anyone who would be willing to help input the rest. I have a basic format for the pages prepared that looks a loot like the man pages on 4.3 BSD. I would be more than willing to make up a document explaining how to use the troff commands that you need to know to do man pages. If you do not want to take the time to learn the troff commands, then just entering the text would be fine, and I would put in the formatting commands. I just want to get the man pages on line. To provide an incentive for people to help in this effort, I will not make the pages avalible to the general public until they are complete, which will be a very long time if no one helps me. Each month I will make an updated version of the man pages available to those people who have sent me 5 or more pages of text that month. This will include any errors found as well as the man pages I have received in that month. The only obvious things neccessary to help are access to the Xenix manuals and a little free time. If you don't have access to the IBM Xenix 2.00 manuals but do have access to another version of the Xenix manuals (I'm sure there are many SCO & other flavors out there), then those would be fine. I will read every page that I get and make sure that everything's there and agrees with the IBM manuals (unless there's an obvious error in the manual), so please tell me if you do this. If I get only 100 people willing to assist me (there HAS to be at least that many Xenix users out there) we will be able to have a complete set of man pages by the end of the summer. I'm sure many of you will think that this is a worthwhile project and will be eager to help. However, in your excitement to help, please do not start inputting right now. Please contact me and I will give you a list of pages for the first month. Let's not have everybody doing the man pages for ls, rm, lc, etc... I have already prepared a list of all the commands in the Command Reference and in the System Reference, so there will be no overlap. I have also adapted the man command that was posted recently so that it will run perfectly on Xenix (didn't take much). This allows us to avoid processing the page every time we read it. For those of you who don't have the text formatting system, I will also make the processed pages available, so you have no excuse for not helping out. If anyone has already done this (I doubt it) or started on it (much more likely), PLEASE contact me so we can consolidate our efforts. The address in my .signature may or may not work. If it does not, sns@tybalt.caltech.edu should work for just about anything. If it doesn't, the the full path would be ....!seismo!csvax!genghis!sns My cat can quack, can yours? genghis!sns@csvax.Caltech.Edu