Source for /usr/doc on Sys V

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Thu Aug 2 04:33:31 AEST 1984


> Our distribution copy of System V (release 1) apparently has source
> for the manual, but not for what you would normally find in /usr/doc.
> Is this normal?  If it is, how do we go about getting these things?

This is "normal", the &*&%&^$^&%'s at AT&T having decided to do things
this way.  I seem to recall hearing that AT&T had gotten enough flak over
this silly policy that they were planning to make the machine-readable
documents available (separately, at extra cost, of course!), but I don't
recall hearing an official announcement of this.  If you're source-licensed,
you could get the older versions from a site with an older version of Unix
(since a SysV source licence is supposed to cover all older Bell versions).
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry



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