On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:54:40PM -0400, luna wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:04:55 +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > 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 we stopped installing them because many of them were falling out of date 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: > > Note that you'll need to pull /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.doc.mk out of the > attic and install it in /usr/share/mk, and then you'll need a copy of > groff to build these documents. I haven't tested this on a recent > version of OpenBSD, though I can say that older versions of both > OpenBSD and FreeBSD work quite well for building these old docs. If you > want versions you can read on your terminal, you can pass -Tascii to > groff like FreeBSD's bsd.doc.mk does, which is (handwaving over other > details here) what groff does to render manpages. > > I can wholeheartedly recommend building and reading the ones you can > find, especially if you're interested in Unix history. They're something > of a time capsule, providing a snapshot of what Unix was at the time and > how people used it. In addition, as said above, some of them are just as > applicable today as when they were written. >
also, although it won;t be pretty, you can just pass the documents to mandoc and get something that's at least semi-readable. jmc
