On Sep 13 07:04:55, j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote: > > Long ago and far away, the Berkeley distributions used to ship an > > assortment of system documentation in /usr/share/doc, including a > > general-purpose system administrators manual. > > > > I guess people didn't want to update those, or maybe thought they > > were sacred relics, never to be touched. But all the *BSDs dropped > > them, years ago. I thought that was the wrong move; they should > > have been kept, along with a /usr/share/doc/README that noted they > > are historical, and therefore probably out of date. Although I'm > > sure the vi documentation stands up to this day. > > > > we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date > and there wasn;t really the resources (or motivation) to update them. > however not all of them were removed. although no longer installed, some > of the better ones remain in the source tree. from a quick look:
Some of them are still quite nice to read! > /usr/src/usr.bin/gprof/PSD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/lex/PSD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/m4/PSD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/make/PSD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/yacc/PSD.doc > /usr/src/bin/csh/USD.doc > /usr/src/bin/ed/USD.doc > /usr/src/games/trek/USD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/awk/USD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/bc/USD.doc Index: usr.bin/bc//USD.doc/bc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/bc/USD.doc/bc,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -u -p -r1.9 bc --- usr.bin/bc//USD.doc/bc 9 Jul 2004 10:23:05 -0000 1.9 +++ usr.bin/bc//USD.doc/bc 14 Jan 2023 22:41:09 -0000 @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ to the named expression on the left. .PP The result of the above expressions is equivalent to ``named expression = named expression OP expression'', -where OP is the operator after the = sign. +where OP is the operator before the = sign. .NH 1 Relations .PP > /usr/src/usr.bin/dc/USD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/USD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/sed/USD.doc > /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc > /usr/src/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc > /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/SMM.doc > > jmc > >
