Re: PSD, SMM and USD manuals [was: Re: Shell tutorial added]

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:39:47 +0300 markucz%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
> > It'd be nice if we could offer this and other USD documents in pdf
> > format on the website.  Perhaps under http://www.netbsd.org/docs/
> > near the links to the manual pages?
> > 
> A year ago I spent a couple of days in an effort to create a
> complete set of the PSD, SMM and USD manuals. I got the missing
> parts (now mostly of historical interest) from 4.4BSD-Alpha and
> 4.3BSD. There were quite a few gotchas and I spent a couple of days
> tbl'ing, refer'ing and roff'ing. USD:21 (troff) probably still has
> some errors (apart from the references being on page 2). Some
> documents changed number since 4.3BSD, and PS1 and PS2 were merged
> into PSD. That has been fixed, and the TOCs modified accordingly.
> There're also some papers I got from FreeBSD 2.1. None of them is
> specific to FreeBSD though. Unfortunately, I keep neither the
> modified sources and makefiles, nor the scripts used. If anyone
> finds an error, he'll have to go through all that again.
> 
> The docs are in PostScript format but if you're interested, I can
> send them to you. The compressed tarball is ~5MB big.

We would want sources, not postscript. The point would be to commit
the sources to the NetBSD repository.

Do you have sources and the change histories on your updates?

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost