From: wlestes@wlestes.uncg.edu
To: lark@world.std.com, 2ndsight@taconic.net, blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: More on "man" and editors
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:16:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812222316.SAA01029@wlestes.uncg.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812201539.AA23419@world.std.com> (lark@world.std.com)
have a look at the following:
ftp.ocf.berkeley.edu:/pub/Library/Computer
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html
for the 2nd address, i find wget or similar tools to be of great
help in fetching large numbers of pages.
> I imagine that a number of enhanced freeware implementations of standard
> Unix utilities are without standard manpages. A good resource would
> probably be the last public Berkeley Standard Distribution manpages.
> Because these are distributed under the Berkeley license (allowing free
> reproduction and distribution for non-commercial use only, but requiring
> licensing for commercial distribution) they are omitted from commercial
> packages and also from standard FSF-oriented sites, who prefer to only
> allow Copyleft distribution under the GNU Public License. But the BSD
> manpages can be found on various archive sites. I don't have a specific
> site at hand, but if nobody else does I'll dig one up...
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