Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets

[Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>]

Is a tarball of the 8th ed manual troff files available?

The Unix Historical Society (see www.tuhs.org) would like to have this
too, I don't doubt.

Thanks!

Arnold

In article <5d375e920908010430t7e5786d1te49f3da8b7a686fc@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>Thanks to Fish's contribution I have made the Unix 8th Edition manuals
>available at:
>
>http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/
>
>Tons of fascinating stuff there, including the jerq docs in section 9
>( http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/ ) and what I think is the oldest
>documentation of the /proc file system
>(http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc ).
>
>Fish also contributed some pages from section 1 of the Unix Writer's
>Workbench: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/
>
>Thanks again to Fish for this wonderful contributions, and of course
>to the original authors of all this amazing material.
>
>Peace
>
>uriel
>
>P.S.: I'm still working out a couple of kinks in the web interface
>that make =(1) and Mail(1) inaccessible, but almost everything else
>should work fine, if you notice any problems please let me know.
>
>On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Uriel<uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Slightly off topic (of this thread), but I'm looking for troff sources
>> of 8th, 9th, 10th and Plan 9 1st Editions to complete the man page
>> collections at http://man.cat-v.org
>>
>> If anyone knows where I can find copies of any of those, I would be
>> most grateful.
>>
>> uriel
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Benjamin
>> Huntsman<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
>>> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm striking out on google, and I'm
>virtually certain that someone here will know...
>>>
>>> Does anyone happen to have the ISBN's for the 7th Edition manual set?
>>> Volume I is 0-03-061742-1, but I can't seem to find the others...
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> -Ben
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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