dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (04/20/88)
Here is a neat idea for someone at Apple to put together... How about feeding the man pages for A/UX into a hypercard stack! Add to it the general gettiing started with A/UX and sys admin, networking, and intro to the included Unix utilities & programs included with A/UX and distribute it in comp.binaries.hypercard and post it to Compuserve and Genie and MacNET. And even distribute it to the used groups around the country. So....how about it?
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (04/20/88)
>How about feeding the man pages for A/UX into a hypercard stack! ... >and distribute >it in comp.binaries.hypercard and post it ... This is a pretty neat idea, except: Unix manual pages are tightly licensed materials. Usenix had to go through a great deal of negotiating to be able to sell the 4.3BSD manuals to anyone. The original restriction was that you had to prove you had a source license. /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K. Shull) (04/21/88)
In article <17280005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes: >How about feeding the man pages for A/UX into a hypercard stack! Add to it The man pages on our system total around 3600k. A/UX's are probably at least as large (probably more). Now add in the intro stuff, convert it to a Hypercard stack (ouch), etc. and ... I don't think I'd want to download it (especially not at 1200 baud) -- Robert K. Shull University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network ihnp4!occrsh!uokmax!rob CIS 73765,1254 Delphi RKSHULL Opinions contained herein in no way reflect those of the University of Oklahoma.
cspencer@spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) (04/22/88)
In article <17280005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes: >How about feeding the man pages for A/UX into a hypercard stack! Add to it It is my understanding that A/UX doesn't even run HyperCard. Is this true? -cliff -- Cliff Spencer cspencer@spdcc.COM {ihnp4,harvard,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!cspencer
andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh) (04/24/88)
In article <17280005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes: >Here is a neat idea for someone at Apple to put together... > >How about feeding the man pages for A/UX into a hypercard stack! Add to it >the general gettiing started with A/UX and sys admin, networking, and intro >to the included Unix utilities & programs included with A/UX and distribute >it in comp.binaries.hypercard and post it to Compuserve and Genie >and MacNET. And even distribute it to the used groups around the country. > >So....how about it? How about a generic UNIX stack? I am going to get A/UX, so a specific stack for it would be useful to me, but for Unix users who will not be using A/UX, a Unix stack would be more widely recieved. I can think of no better way to spread the idea of Unix (especially to the Mac users). Whoever has an interest in producing a stack on Unix, with a probable follow on stack specifically for A/UX, please email me. Based on the response, I may decide to put together a project. Anyone interested? -- Andrew C. Esh DOMAIN: andrew@ems.MN.ORG APPLELINK: D0492 EMS/McGraw-Hill UUCP: ihnp4!meccts!ems!andrew AT&T: (612) 829-8200