fangchin@portia.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) (01/11/91)
In article <1284@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes: >In article <KHAI.91Jan10082730@snapper.adi.com> khai@adi.com (S. Khai Mong) writes: >|In article <52585@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes: >| >| It's very expensive for a vendor to offer the man pages on line, but >| it's also pretty popular with end users. >| >|Why should it be very expensive? > >Licence fees to AT&T. > >J.T. Conklin jtc@wimsey.bc.ca, ...!{uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!jtc I am using man pages ftped from gatekeeper.dec.com BSD archive directories and from my school's /afs (Andrew File Systems) for my ESIX Rev D 386 box. They are helpful, but very often, I have to take the contents with a grain of salt due to the fact that BSD stuff could be quite different from Sys V things. This has been the only way I can think of to equip my i386 box with on line mans. Does anyone know a better, preferably free (PD) way of getting System V type man pages? In addition, can someone tell me which i386 unix vendors offer on line man pages without charging extra? (ESIX is out regarding this, Everex does not even want to offer on line mans). Regards, Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@portia.stanford.edu