On Sep 21, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
There was a good reason for that. To my recollection, they hadn't
been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date. While they
were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer
documentation they were useless at best and misleading or dangerous at
worst.
So throwing them out was easier than updating them.
As I recall, the real reason they got tossed was because some factions wanted to remove
the *roff tools from the base OS, meaning the viewable versions of the documents could no
longer be produced.
--lyndon