From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 23175 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1998 13:25:29 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 1998 13:25:29 -0000 Received: from wlestes.uncg.edu (wlestes.uncg.edu [152.13.173.71]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA22163 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:12:51 -0500 From: wlestes@wlestes.uncg.edu Received: (from wlestes@localhost) by wlestes.uncg.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA01273; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:12:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 09:12:52 -0500 Message-Id: <199812231412.JAA01273@wlestes.uncg.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: wlestes.uncg.edu: wlestes set sender to wlestes@wlestes.uncg.edu using -f To: jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU CC: blinux-list@redhat.com In-reply-to: (message from Jason White on Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:12:51 +1100 (AEDT)) Subject: Re: More on "man" and editors References: List-Id: I thought the following reply might be of general interest so I am sending it to blinux-list as well. > I noticed your message on Blinux-list, and have an interest in those > classic BSD manuals available at ftp.ocf.edu/pub/Library/Computer/ > > There appear to be two copies: the Unix programmer's manual and the 4.3 > bsd version. Which is more up to date? Also, does there exist a compressed > tar archive of the entire documentation set? This material seems slightly > more up to date than the Bell Labs documents. for compressed tar archives, many ftp sites allow one to do get dir.tar.gz which will tar and compress the directory dir on the fly so you get a file dir.tar.gz which contains the contents of dir. If the particular site does not allow such get commands--the symptom is usually "dir.tar.gz: no such file" or similarly worded messages--you can use tools like ncftp which have a recursive get command. also, wget can fetch http and ftp documents and wget also can fetch directories recursively. wget can be had from your favorite GNU dealership and ncftp comes shipped with redhat and maybe other distributions. if you cant find it, i'd check sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux I'm not sure which of the two sets is more up to date. if memory serves, i fetched both and they sit on my harddrive at home. I just tried to check at ocf, but for some reason could not get a directory listing. best of luck. --will