List of 6000 Linux C function calls and commands

Why don't you just read the man pages in an xterm like everybody else?

Thanks for that... Bookmarked.

This is *far* easier to read than the man pages, especially if you're not really sure what you are looking for and just want to browse through.

"6000 Linux C function calls"

And here I have a 2-ton pile of nuts, bolts and brackets that people can use to build ANY new space station or aircraft carrier.

I like to print all of this out as a hardcopy reference. Usually I'll print all of this twice just in case I lose the first copy.

and/or use 'apropos' of you're not sure of the command's name.

I'm sure you're joking, but I remember starting to do that once: print out all of the Unix man pages to put in 3-ring binders. I don't remember if I got them all printed or not. That was back when I was using a serial terminal on with V7 on a PDP-11 (no networking, no X11) There weren't nearly as many man pages back then, and opening a new xterm to read a man page wasn't an option, but I quickly learned how to live without hardcopy of man pages.

Grant Edwards wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

A friend who did a stint at AT&T many many years ago gave me a big thick comb-bound "book" of man pages, with a permuted index. Unfortunately, at that time I was mostly stuck on DOS.

I suppose the modern equivalent would be to use a bash script to periodically feed all the manpages through man2html and write a chunk of PHP to act as a search/selection tool, but I can't think why anybody would do that when man+apropos works so well. Unless, of course, they had some sort of command-line phobia.

Always yearning to become a *nix programmer but never really making it. Right Chris? The story of your life only these days its working as a Windows QA person.

Of course I'm joking. I actually print out three copies in case I lose both the original and the backup.

I used to really like computer books back in the day. But now with all the reference material available via man pages and out on the web it's been ages since I've bought a computer book. The other problem for books is that things change so rapidly that a book is often out of date by the time it's released.

I never used a PDP-11. My first *nix experience was with Ultrix running on a MicroVAX. It ran DEC-windows so opening up multiple terminals was trivial. I don't remember what the actual resolution was on the Ultrix workstations but the monitors seemed amazing compared to the typical PC monitor.

Don't laugh too hard, book-printed versions of the Unix manpages are still available from Prentice-Hall.

Those were pretty common back in the day. I had a complete set of those for BSD, a single-volume one for System-V, and another one for MKS tookit (a port of ksh and System V command line tools for Dos).

I remember switching from a VT-240 to a MicroVAX workstation. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Back then, there was a _huge_ difference between PC monitors (15" 1024x768 if you were _lucky_) and Sun/Apollo/uVax workstations (usually 19-21" and _much_ higher resolution). If you did mainly coding and documentation, the grayscale monitors for those workstations were _gorgeous_: larger and higher resolution than the color options. I stuck with grayscale on Sun workstations until about 2000 when I switched to Linux. That was definitly a big downgrade in display quality. I don't think I had anything equal to those old Sun grayscale monitors until many years later when I bought a 20" Samsung 206BW 1680x1050 LCD.

Back in the 90s I had printed manuals for the software that I used.

These days it's considered a terribly quaint idea, especially among the younger people. Either a softcopy version is available (PDF,HTML) or it's much easier to just search Google.

I used to drag a big collection of paper around with my every where I went but I discontinued that.

Hey, Ezekreep. Tell us again how the GPL is hypocritical, as are all FOSS developer and advocates who think it's a good and fair license.

You just said it well enough or are you Lying?

This was my late 80s experience with Sun Workstations as well.

I never touched the actual hardware of a MicroVAX. Although I did use both Ultrix and VMS.