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Techpubs for pre-6.5 Versions of IRIX

josehill avatar
josehill
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Who joined June 6, 2005, 9:53 p.m.
Wrote the following at March 7, 2012, 1:48 p.m...
I was poking around SGI's Techpubs site today, looking for an IRIX 5.3-era man page, and I noticed that versions of IRIX prior to IRIX 6.5 are no longer listed in the Techpubs navigation links. However, SGI still has the pre-6.5 documents available through Techpubs as "archive" material. For your convenience, here are the links to the version-specific sections of the Techpubs archives:

IRIX 5.3 - http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0530
IRIX 6.2 - http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0620
IRIX 6.3 - http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0630
IRIX 6.4 - http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0640

For those who might be interested in creating their own, personal archives, there was a fair amount of discussion on the subject in this thread from a couple of years ago - viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10071
milatchi avatar
milatchi
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Who joined Nov. 28, 2004, 8:49 p.m.
Wrote the following at March 17, 2012, 3:51 p.m...
josehill wrote: I was poking around SGI's Techpubs site today, looking for an IRIX 5.3-era man page

I'd like to find some IRIX 3.* man pages. yeah, I know, good luck. :lol:
Thanks for the links though Jose, I'll use 'em.
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jan-jaap
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From Wijchen, The Netherlands
Who joined June 17, 2004, 11:35 a.m.
Wrote the following at March 18, 2012, 2:14 p.m...
milatchi wrote: I'd like to find some IRIX 3.* man pages. yeah, I know, good luck. :lol:
Thanks for the links though Jose, I'll use 'em.

Easy: dig up the IRIX 3.x media :)

Extract man pages, and IRIX 6.5 has a man2html gateway similar to techpubs.
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