22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
7:53 a.m.
On 2017-09-21 19:36, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:02:07AM +1000, Greg
'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I still love those manuals. The printed set of the BSD manuals were
some of the first books I ordered off the Internet back in the early
1990s. Well worn, but still on my shelf. I learned a lot from them,
including *roff from the URM docs.
I got excited when I first installed NetBSD on my Amiga 3000 and saw
that (most of) those docs were in the tree.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
On Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 20:39:24 +0200,
Steffen Nurpmeso
wrote:
That's really on the maintainers, it's a shame they haven't kept those
up to date. Either update them or add to them, there has to be
something
worth writing up.
I used to *love* those manuals. Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
There was a good reason for that. To my recollection, they hadn't
been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date. While they
were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer
documentation they were useless at best and misleading or dangerous at
worst. I think it's a shame that the non-man-page
parts of the Unix
documentation set have been neglected, in that you don't often get
newer programs following the style of the USD / SMM / PSD guides.
The problem being that even FreeBSD dropped them from the base
system.