[nycbug-talk] [OT] Does anyone have any pictures or physical copies of dead tree unix manuals?

Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org
Wed Dec 19 13:30:39 EST 2012


On 12/19/12 08:48, Justin Dearing wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Today I realized there are no pictures of unix manuals on the 
> wikipedia man entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page). Google 
> images doesn't have much either.
>
> Twice in my life have I seen real unix manuals. One was for some AT&T 
> flavor and one was for AUX. In both cases they were in binders that 
> were of executive paper size or smaller. I believe the AT&T ones were 
> grey with blue writing and the A/UX ones were red with black or gold.
>
> If anyone has actual dead tree copies can they take pictues and uplaod 
> them to wikimedia, or flickr-CC before these peices of history all get 
> thrown away?
>

This guy holds a special place in my heart - hopefully someone has a 
copy laying around:
http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdcomp

sucks I just purged my old IRIX 6.5.x and SGI hardware documentation 
from my library about a year ago :/


-p

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Pete Wright
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