On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 07:00:56AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:54:40PM -0400, luna wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:04:55 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > hi. > > > > > > we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date > > > and there wasn;t really the resources (or motivation) to update them. > > > however not all of them were removed. although no longer installed, some > > > of the better ones remain in the source tree. from a quick look: > > > > Note that you'll need to pull /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.doc.mk out of the > > attic and install it in /usr/share/mk, and then you'll need a copy of > > groff to build these documents. I haven't tested this on a recent > > version of OpenBSD, though I can say that older versions of both > > OpenBSD and FreeBSD work quite well for building these old docs. If you > > want versions you can read on your terminal, you can pass -Tascii to > > groff like FreeBSD's bsd.doc.mk does, which is (handwaving over other > > details here) what groff does to render manpages. > > > > I can wholeheartedly recommend building and reading the ones you can > > find, especially if you're interested in Unix history. They're something > > of a time capsule, providing a snapshot of what Unix was at the time and > > how people used it. In addition, as said above, some of them are just as > > applicable today as when they were written. > > > > also, although it won;t be pretty, you can just pass the documents to > mandoc and get something that's at least semi-readable. > > jmc
can also be found at https://docs-legacy.freebsd.org/44doc/ https://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/ https://9p.io/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Seventh_Edition_Vol_2_1983.pdf
