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The reference to “Tops-20 JSYS manuals” is analogous to “Linux syscall wiki”. “JSYS” is the opcode for “Jump into the operating SYStem” on Digital Equipment’s
by drfuchs 7y ago
The reference to “Tops-20 JSYS manuals” is analogous to “Linux syscall wiki”. “JSYS” is the opcode for “Jump into the operating SYStem” on Digital Equipment’s 36-bit mainframes.
- mhd 7y agoCan you get hardcover Print-outs of the Linux man pages, syscalls or other sections? Huge printed manual sections on shelves appears to be a thing of the past...
- leoc 7y agoI haven't seen anyone selling them commercially. But if you could find high-quality lever-arch binders and the right kind of blank paper you could presumably make your own Linux version of the Big Grey Wall http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/BigGrayWall.html http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/BigGrayWall.html . I assume that the core APIs change slowly enough nowadays that printing new pages often enough to keep the wall up to date would not be infeasible. One possible problem: IDK if all the snags involved in converting man page troff into other formats are fully ironed out, even now. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/gropdf.1.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/gropdf.1.html Probably the bigger reason not to is that the arrival of cheap tablets and laptops, multi-monitor and/or ultrawide-monitor desktop setups and AR/VR is eroding the remaining usefulness of such hardcopy docs. It still might be a marginally-useful fashion statement for a whole office of programmers who build directly on the Linux APIs fairly regularly. Probably the nearest thing that's available off the shelf (no pun intended) is a hardcover copy of Kerrisk http://man7.org/tlpi/ http://man7.org/tlpi/ , which actually happens to be on a slightly-higher-than-usual discount this very weekend: https://nostarch.com/tlpi https://nostarch.com/tlpi .
- pasabagi 7y agoI have used eprinting services to bind APIs as a book before. It's nice - definitely worth the money if you plan on using something a lot.
- leoc 7y agoInteresting. Which services did you use, and were you happy with the service and prices? Did you find anyone who will print pages punched for ring-binding?
- pasabagi 7y agoI used lulu - and I just printed the html documentation (it was for Allegro 5) as a novel-size book. The price was fine. Other than that, it wasn't significantly more difficult than ordering any other book - so I have no real feeling for the service. They have a sort of web design app which was predictably terrible, but it didn't really bother me because I didn't want anything on the cover.
- api 7y agoEven better would be to run them off on a dot matrix printer.