I freely admit that I'm not a UNIX expert, or even knowledgable to be dangerous. I've driven vi and grep a few dozen times and installed drivers, etc, and typed 'make' followed by a bit of other text, but the way I use documents, is that I read everything I can about the subject and remember it, largely verbatim, for LONG periods of time. Few people do that, but I'm one. When you do that, the most obvious thing about the subject and about the documentation is the inconsistency in the documentation. I'm a stickler for precise documents. Maybe this is not part of your reality, but it's how the world works for me. I've avoided UNIX for all the years, since I was in college in the VERY early '60's, not that it was an issue back then, and, clearly, though I have had nearly a dozen dedicated machines running it right here, and I don't any more, I've concluded that that's not what I want to study. I don't remember things as well as I did when I was a student, perhaps due to overflow, and maybe I'll do things differently in the future, but that's the approach to documents that I can best grasp, so I've staked that territory out for myself. It doesn't matter to me that few or many people use the information in question. I've had it for 20-25 years in some cases and never even used some of the items myself, but recently, I've seen numerous posts and received inquiries about one or another of these documents. Clearly, someone wants to use them. If you don't need this data, you won't serve anyone by looking it over. If you do, I suppose you'll have to satisfy your curiosity somewhere. The computer where the data's stored won't care, and I won't even know. When I see data available somewhere, I consider whether I want it, and, if so, I find a way . . . Dick -----Original Message----- From: Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.comTo: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.eduDate: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:10 PM Subject: Re: Disk Drive Documents Power