[TUHS] Poll: good location for Unix documentation?

[Clem Cole]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 2:54 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     > From: Warren Toomey
>
>     > All, I'm just musing where is the best place to store Unix
>     > documentation. My Unix Archive is really just a filesystem, so it's
> not
>     > so good to capture and search metadata.
>     > Is anybody using archive.org, gunkies or something else
>
> BitSavers seems to be the canonical location for old computer
> documentation.
>
I agree +1 BitSavers, but Warren you should keep your stuff.   One-stop
shopping for UNIX archives is a good thing.



>
> The CHWiki (gunkies.org) isn't really the best place to put original
> documentation,
> but that's where I'd recommend putting meta-data. As for searching
> meta-data, are
> you speaking of something more powerful than Google?
>
>     Noel
>
> PS: Speaking of old Unix documentation, I recently acquired a paper copy
> of the
> PDP-11 V6 Unix manual. Is that something I should scan? I don't know if you
> already have it (I know where to find sources in the archives, but I don't
> know where documentation scans live.)
>
What I personally have is impure, and I have not seen a complete one
elsewhere, so if you have a real manual, that is a good thing IMHO.
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