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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: System V documentation
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 15:29:56 EST
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> As it happens, you need ALL of these manuals to be equivalent to the V7
> UNIX Programmer's Manual.

And probably still more stuff; our S5R2 documentation isn't quite the size
of our VMS documentation, but it's getting there (note: no value judgement
is being made).

> You still don't get everything, since documentation on terminal ioctl's
> can only be found in the System Management Utilities Guide (name may not
> be quite right, but it should be pretty close).

Actually, it's the Administrator's Reference Manual, but no matter how
thinly it's sliced it's still bologna.  *It doesn't belong there, it belongs
in the Programmer's Reference Manual*, which is where we're putting it
(are you listening, AT&T?).  The only part useful to admins is the disk
partitioning.  The rest is of infinitely more use to programmers than to
admins.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy