Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.embedded,24hoursupport.helpdesk Subject: Re: List of 6000 Linux C function calls and commands Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1422204149 12809 24.118.110.103 (25 Jan 2015 16:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:42:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:277849 comp.os.linux.embedded:808 On 2015-01-25, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > >> On 2015-01-24, Ezekiel wrote: >> >>> I like to print all of this out as a hardcopy reference. Usually >>> I'll print all of this twice just in case I lose the first copy. >> >> I'm sure you're joking, but I remember starting to do that once: >> print out all of the Unix man pages to put in 3-ring binders. I >> don't remember if I got them all printed or not. That was back >> when I was using a serial terminal on with V7 on a PDP-11 (no >> networking, no X11) There weren't nearly as many man pages back >> then, and opening a new xterm to read a man page wasn't an option, >> but I quickly learned how to live without hardcopy of man pages. > > A friend who did a stint at AT&T many many years ago gave me a big > thick comb-bound "book" of man pages, with a permuted index. > Unfortunately, at that time I was mostly stuck on DOS. Those were pretty common back in the day. I had a complete set of those for BSD, a single-volume one for System-V, and another one for MKS tookit (a port of ksh and System V command line tools for Dos). -- Grant