On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:49 AM Clem Cole wrote: > As my very fragile nth edition photocopy shows, the original Western > Electric copies are not troff'ed and run through a typesetter because John > (like most of us at the time) did not have access to one (and Tom Ferrin > had not yet done the vcat(1) hack at UCSF). Lions used standard nroff > output - (in this case, originally to 132 column line printer paper I > believe). > Indeed. Even the mid-90's Peer-to-Peer press reprinting appears to be, roughly, a facsimile of line printer output. I say 'roughly' because there is some prefatory material at the beginning that is properly typeset: dedications, acknowledgements, etc, all written at the time of (re)publication and similarly a set of "appreciations" at the end. Interestingly, the title page appears to be approximately original and is typeset. It also includes this little gem of a note: "COPY NO. 050B NAME PROPERTY OF BELL LABORATORIES, INC. COPY TO BE RETURNED TO: COMPUTING INFORMATION SERVICE MH 2F-128 UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM SOURCE CODE VERSION 6" (line breaks elided). I don't think I've ever seen a copy of the original; I suspect the title page was reset for the PP publication, though it is of course possible that Lions could have prepared that specially: doing a "one-off" for a single page, perhaps under contract with an actual publishing company or graphic artist or something, would have been reasonable while the rest of the booklet contents were taken from listings. > [snip] > > - Dan C.