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Subject:    [TUHS] v6: where is "man"?
From:       newsham () lava ! net (Tim Newsham)
Date:       2010-10-21 17:32:00
Message-ID: Pine.BSI.4.64.1010210731030.25174 () malasada ! lava ! net
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> Yes, it does a "$(PAGER) /usr/doc/man/cat1/man.0" :-)

I don't think thats accurate in v6 unix (or many other
early research unixen). The man pages arent preformatted
into .0 files afaik.

> Maybe I should have added a smiley. My point was that originally you didn't 
> have a man program. You had man-pages, and you looked at them any way you 
> preferred. And that is what you observed, but didn't seem to grasp, when you 
> looked at V6 (hence the question about where the man-program is).
>
> Short answer then: there is none.

I don't think that is accurate.

> 	Johnny

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com

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