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From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
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Badvoc <badvoc@sylph.u-net.com> wrote:

> As far as I'm aware the vi manual is not freely available.

You can get a copy of it from

  ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/net2/share/doc/usd/15.vi/

I'm not sure what exact definition of "free" you're using, but the
files have standard Berkeley licenses on them.

> On a related not does anyone know where I can get a bourne shell manual
> from?

You can get the standard Bell Labs manual from

  http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/

Or go to a bookstore -- there seem to be plenty of shell programming
books out there.

eric