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Henrik Carlqvist <
Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> writes:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:22:00 -0400, Mike Small wrote:
>> Does anyone know for a fact whether 1.6g was the final release of man,
>> the man program in Slackware 14.2?
>
> Probably, Slackware 14.2 was released in 2016, it has the directory
> /usr/doc/man-1.6g where the newest file is TODO from 2010.
...
> In the LSM file in that /usr/doc directory it says that the sources
> should be available at
>
>
http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
>
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lucifred/man/
> and
>
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/doctools/man/
>
> None of those URLs work, but if you replace ftp with http in the last URL
> you can find latest man 1.6g from 2011 at redirected
>
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/doctools/man/
And nothing more appears there. So that must indeed be the end.
I actually saw the maintainer speak at local Perl and Linux group talks
where I used to live. But to ask, "so why aren`t you maintaining this
anymore? What happened?" would be a pretty annoying question for him
(though he seems to be a phenomenally nice man).
Thanks for digging. Helpful as always.
I`m thinking maybe I`ll take the source out of slackware`s dvd if I can
find it again after I move. Kind of wonder about the trustworthiness of
that old url. Though I do plan to skim the code (the point of all
this), probably I`d easily miss something snuck in.
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