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

Nikolai Fetissov nikolai at fetissov.org
Sun Dec 23 13:01:31 EST 2012


On Dec 19, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

> 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 :/
> 

Will this do?

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