Amiga Unix and A3000UX announcement
Mike "Ford" Ditto
ford at amix.commodore.com
Sun Feb 10 20:58:16 AEST 1991
guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> > On-line manual pages and "man" command
> So AT&T finally put them back? Or did Commodore buy the on-line man
> page product and include that?
SVR4 now includes the man pages and the BSD man program, but it's not
very will integrated. AT&T doesn't, as far as I know, provide
makefiles or anything that install the man pages in a format readable
by the man program. We ended up essentially writing a new man program
anyway.
> > Traditional Unix document preparation system (nroff, troff, -ms,
> > -mm, -mv, eqn, tbl, pic, grap, troff->postscript filters, etc.)
>
> Sounds like Commodore bought DWB and folded that in; "*roff" and stuff
> made it into AT&T's S5R4, but mainly for "BSD compatibility", which
> means they folded in the ancient V7-vintage "*roff" in BSD. DWB isn't
> bundled with S5R4, unless something's changed since I last heard....
Oops. Now that you mention it, I realize that I lied: pic and grap
are not included for that very reason; the rest are part of the BSD
troff. We are debating whether to include DWB in future releases;
evidently it's rather expensive per binary license.
My only complaint about the BSD troff after using it for a while now
is that it trashes bit 7 of input text, meaning that international
characters are out. (I use a sed script to turn the ones I need into
overstrike commands.) Of course the latest DWB we have has the same
problem; I am hoping there is an improved version.
> Also, as I remember, "/dev/fd", implemented as a file system
An implementation detail that I didn't consider interesting (and do
consider pointless -- /dev/fd/ would have been better implemented as a
regular device driver unless you want, for example, readdir to only
show fds currently open).
-=] Ford [=-
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