-------- In message <alpine.BSF.2.21.1709121210140.54096_at_orthanc.ca>, Lyndon Nerenberg writes: >> That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL >> thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR >> and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff. > >Not quite. They (AT&T) sold the rights to sell typeset manuals to some >publishing house (I forget which), at which point they stopped shipping >the *roff source for the manpages on the source tapes. Instead, you got >pre-formatted "cat" pages on the source tape. I think this happened >starting with SVR3. I'm pretty sure that SVR1 had catman and roff was an extra and somewhat pricey software package. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Sep 12 2017 - 19:21:11 UTC
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