The Manual Page Library

This is an archive of the man page collections of various ‘obscure’ operating systems related to Bell Labs.

The web interface is built as a werc app called wman, and it intends to be a more reliable, usable and up to date than other similar web interfaces.

Plan 9

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs current distribution manual pages.*
• Plan 9 from User Space current distribution manual pages* - For Unix-like systems.
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs Third Edition
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs Second Edition
• Plan 9 from Bell Labs First Edition - Newly re-licensed.
• Manual pages for programs in Plan 9’s sources/contrib packaging system.

Plan B

• Plan B.
• Plan B First Edition - Of historical interest.

Inferno

• Vitanuova’s Inferno Fourth Edition current distribution.*
• inferno-3e
• inferno-1.1e
• inferno-1.0e

Research Unix

If you know where to find copies of the currently missing editions, please let me know and I will be most grateful.

• Unix 10th Edition. Coming soon!
• Unix 9th Edition.
• Unix 8th Edition - Thanks to David du Colombier (aka Fish in #plan9)!
• Unix Writer’s Workbench - Also contributed by Fish!
• Unix V7 - Thanks to aiju for suggesting this.
• Unix V6 - Thanks to aiju in #cat-v for helping dig up and fix up the V6 man tmac. (Section 0 is missing from the web interface for unknown technical reasons.)
• Unix First Edition - HTMLfied version of the OCRd scans of the original Unix manual.

* These collections are regularly updated with the latest versions from their respective repositories.

Wanted: If you have a copy of the troff source for any of the wanted collections, please contact me.