Minix 1.5 man pages on minix1.hampshire.edu
I have posted my Minix 1.5 man pages in the anonymous ftp area of
minix1.hampshire.edu. I hope they will be of use to people using
Minix 1.5 on MacIntosh or Atari systems.
These are flat ASCII files, one file per man section, intended to be
read by the Minix 1.5 man command. This is not a standard man command
as found on other Unix versions, in fact, its name was originally help,
and its action is similar to the MS-DOS HELP command. With no argument
the command gives you a menu of available documents. See the README
for more information.
The sections of the Minix 1.5 manual are:
Section 1: User commands
Section 2: System calls
Section 3: C library
Section 4: File formats
Section 5: Miscellaneous
Section 6: Games
Section 7: Special files (devices)
Section 8: Maintenance procedures
The entries in section 1 are derived from a set of man pages that Andy
Tanenbaum sent me in 1993, and some of the entries correspond to
enhancements added in the version 1.6 release, but the majority are
identical to the Minix 1.5 man pages in the printed Minix 1.5 Reference
Manual. Andy has given his permission to post this material.
The entries in the other sections come from a variety of sources. Some
are Andy's pages moved to another section. Many entries were provided
by other contributors to enhanced Minix 1.5 as it was installed on
minix1.hampshire.edu, and pages for the boot monitor (by Kees Bot) and
the Tnet network package (by Michael Temari) are included. So be
warned, if you download these pages for use on your MacIntosh or Atari
running Minix 1.5 there are some entries here that don't correspond to
anything in your system. Many entries were written by me (asw) for my
own use or for my students, and some of these are very sketchy. In
some cases the formatting into plain ASCII is incomplete, and a few
entries originally written in Spanish may not have been translated into
English.
Files in ftp://minix1.hampshire.edu/pub/minix.1.5/man
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 4263 Mar 11 1995 README.man.1.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 176315 Feb 26 1995 man1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 43155 Feb 26 1995 man2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 28349 Feb 26 1995 man3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 8493 Feb 26 1995 man4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 13479 Jan 24 10:40 man5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1500 Feb 26 1995 man6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 5829 Feb 26 1995 man7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 42711 Feb 26 1995 man8
Corrections or comments to Al Woodhull, awoodhull@hampshire.edu.
asw 10 July 1996
