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User manuals were shipped with every NeXT. Additional copies available from NeXT (N6002/N6003/N6014/N6026) $25.
The following books are available directly from NeXT:
Unix man pages, which are included in the online docs.
BSD unix documentation (MISC, PS1, PS2, SMM, USD). Available from to USENIX site members. A lot of this has been integrated into the NeXT documentation. Some of this is sorely missing. The SMM Unix System Manager's Manual is really useful!
The SMM and the rest of the berkeley documentation are also available directly and for free via anon ftp e.g. from
Adobe documentation. Available machine-readable by e-mail from [email protected]. Hardcopy available from Adobe Developer Support Line +1 415 961-4111 for a nominal charge. NeXT last shipped these as part of the 1.0a release; hardcopies appeared in 0.9 Technical Documentation, were omitted in 1.0, and have returned in updated form in Supplemental Documentation of the 2.0 Tech Docs (which is not available on-line).
Get NextAnswers for Digital Librarian from NeXT. The current versions are actually on ftp.next.com or available via the mailserver at [email protected].
Get NeXT Support Bulletin from the archives. It is meant for support centers.
Another good source of information is the archives of previously posted notes from the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups. Note that since the split of comp.sys.next, there is a group archive maintained at ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/GeneralData/Usenet.
NeXTstep Advantage book is available electronically from the archive servers.
The file name is NeXTstepAdvantage.tar.Z; (its compressed size is about 1.3 megabytes; uncompressed, it's about 9.5 megabytes). It is a good introduction to the NeXT programming environment.