Date: 15 Oct 1997 01:30:35 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" <rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Missing manual chapters? Message-ID: <p1izpobgbxf.fsf@panke.panke.de> In-Reply-To: "User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys"'s message of Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:49:25 -0400 (EDT) References: <199710132049.QAA15829@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
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"User Rdkeys Robert D. Keys" <rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> writes: > > > > Why are the PSD, SMM, and USD missing chapters? (in /usr/share/doc) > > > > > > They're AT&T copyright. To quote from the O'Reilly edition of SMM: > > > > > > SMM: 15, 16 1nd 17 are copyright 1979, AT&T Bell Laboratories > > > Incorporated. Document SMM: 14 is a modification of an earlier > > > document that is copyrighted 1979 by AT&T Bell Laboratories > > > Incorporated... > > > > > > You can get them all in the printed version, but it's not worth the > > > trouble. They're pretty out-of-date. There are all (including the encumbered chapters) available as troff sources at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/unix/ > and the postscript versions of the DWB docs were on AT&T's library at: > > netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr AT&T is dead. Try netlib.bell-labs.com -> Computing Sciences Research Center -> Papers/Technical Reports. Some papers are really funny, e.g. Rob Pike explain how to write a Window System in some hundreds lines C code ;-) -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
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