On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 03:43:30PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) 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 are historical, and therefore probably out of date.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. >
hi. we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date and there wasn;t really the resources (or motivation) to update them.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: /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 /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
