Online Manual needed (was Re: ISC vs SCO UNIX review)
Roger Cornelius
rac at sherpa.uucp
Sat Nov 11 14:44:52 AEST 1989
In article <1618 at ctisbv.cti-software.nl>,
pim at cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
< dpi at loft386.UUCP (Doug Ingraham) writes:
<
<>I know I have seen the online question before. If I remember correctly
<>the answer as to why they (insert Unix Vendor here) don't include man pages
<>is that AT&T treats them as source and wants an outrageous amount for
<>them. Something like $10000. Seems crazy to me too.
<
< This amount is for the unformatted man pages. Surely, any Unix vendor
< could include nroff formatted man pages if SCO can.
< --
I recently installed SCO's 2.2 -> 2.3 man page update and they are now
distributed in unformatted form.
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Roger A. Cornelius rac at sherpa uunet!sherpa!rac
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