Re: More on "man" and editors

[wlestes@wlestes.uncg.edu]

have a look at the following:

ftp.ocf.berkeley.edu:/pub/Library/Computer
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html

for the 2nd address, i find wget or similar tools to be of great
help in fetching large numbers of pages.

> I imagine that a number of enhanced freeware implementations of standard
> Unix utilities are without standard manpages.  A good resource would 
> probably be the last public Berkeley Standard Distribution manpages.  
> Because these are distributed under the Berkeley license (allowing free
> reproduction and distribution for non-commercial use only, but requiring
> licensing for commercial distribution) they are omitted from commercial
> packages and also from standard FSF-oriented sites, who prefer to only
> allow Copyleft distribution under the GNU Public License.  But the BSD
> manpages can be found on various archive sites.  I don't have a specific
> site at hand, but if nobody else does I'll dig one up...

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