On line man pages for 386 Unices (WAS Re: '386 Unix Wars)

[Chin Fang]

In article <1284 at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>In article <KHAI.91Jan10082730 at snapper.adi.com> khai at adi.com (S. Khai Mong) writes:
>|In article <52585 at bigtex.cactus.org> james at bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>|
>|   It's very expensive for a vendor to offer the man pages on line, but
>|   it's also pretty popular with end users.
>|
>|Why should it be very expensive?
>
>Licence fees to AT&T.
>
>J.T. Conklin	jtc at wimsey.bc.ca, ...!{uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!jtc

I am using man pages ftped from gatekeeper.dec.com BSD archive
directories and from my school's /afs (Andrew File Systems) for my
ESIX Rev D 386 box.  They are helpful, but very often, I have to
take the contents with a grain of salt due to the fact that BSD
stuff could be quite different from Sys V things.  This has been
the only way I can think of to equip my i386 box with on line
mans.  Does anyone know a better, preferably free (PD) way of
getting System V type man pages?

In addition, can someone tell me which i386 unix vendors offer
on line man pages without charging extra?  (ESIX is out regarding
this, Everex does not even want to offer on line mans).

Regards,

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin at portia.stanford.edu