Talk:Manual page (Unix)

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The original external link to the Folddoc man pages (that don't seem to be available)

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Someone needs to link manual page to Unix manual, since manual page is what I call them in conversation, I can't be the only one that expands "man". 65.95.124.5 06:36, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. Golwengaud 20:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


I still don't see why the man pages are actually called "on-line manuals". Where those manuals only availible online back in 1971?? Now they are delivered with every UNIX distribution, so why do they continue to call them "on-line" manual pages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.126.42.203 (talk) 11:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

On-line as opposed to dead-tree, I believe. EdC (talk) 01:38, 27 December 2007 (UTC)