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From: simmdan@ux1.isu.edu (Daniel Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Wanted: BSD man pages
Message-ID: <BrpItz.A08@ux1.isu.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 92 21:39:35 GMT
Organization: Idaho State University, Pocatello
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Howdy Folks!
I'm in the process of porting a fairly large system that was designed
to run on BSD derivatives (SunOS and IBM's port of BSD for the RT) to run
under HPUX on an HP9000/827. In the course of all this, I keep running into
small things that either aren't supported in HPUX or are supported some other
way that ARE available with BSD. Specifically, various system calls.
So, here's the big question: Is there anywhere on the net that I can
get a copy of the man page hierarchy from a BSD (4.3) system. If so, I can
install it on my system and using Tom Christianen's man system written in perl
I can see the system calls for a bsd command by typing something like the
following:
man bsd utimes
Are those pages somehow legally protected so that it would not be legal for me
to do what I'd like? Is there anywhere I can ftp them? I keep finding places
where you can get a BSD4.3 reno full distribution, but the man pages seem
to be mixed in with the sources all over the system rather than in one
hierarchy. I've also seen places where I can get BSD386, but it's not apparent
whether that includes the man pages or not, and I'd have to download the
whole system, rawrite it to PC floppies, install, etc. etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
Danny
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