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by swagempire 968 days ago
I love all the comments.

But I have no idea what I can do after I login.

Anyone know a place I could read up on this version, or provide a small description of its capabilities and limitations compared to modern Linux?

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Explore the file system via chdir and ls (or ls -l), see what programs there are under /bin. Compile a C program (e.g. from ken's home directory) with cc and run it. Read the v6 man pages: https://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/ Learn ed and write your own C program.
It even lacks man pages btw
I don't know why the man command is missing, because the pages themselves are there under /usr/man.
You can use roff to show the manpages.

e.g. roff -Tman who.1

Cool-- thanks :)
OK -- thanks:)