[TUHS] v6: where is "man"?

Jason Stevens neozeed at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 15:44:45 AEST 2010


I just booted up the interdata version and... it doesn't have 'man'
either...

I get the impression from /usr/doc/man   that the man pages on the ID32 were
setup with a 'make' command to format and print them all....

I guess the man command didn't exist...????

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:16:37PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
> > I'm playing with unix v6 right now.  I don't see the "man"
> > binary anywhere.. anyone know why?
>
> The v6 man.1 manpage says "[man] is a shell command file",
> so there is no source code, just the shell script.
> Still, that doesn't explain why the script file missing.
> It's not on the Dennis_v6 tape, nor the Ken_Wellsch_v6
> tape in the archive. Intruiging!
>
> Cheers,
>         Warren
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