From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-2.sys.kth.se (smtp-2.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.160]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q09B24Fi029342 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 06:02:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) by smtp-2.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246A014D7CB for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:01:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-2.sys.kth.se ([130.237.32.160]) by mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id RJdakiKoVwyR for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:01:53 +0100 (CET) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [83.250.6.251] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv X-KTH-rcpt-to: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Received: from macky.local (c83-250-6-251.bredband.comhem.se [83.250.6.251]) by smtp-2.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A3414E8AD for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:01:52 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F0AC91F.3070400@bsd.lv> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:01:51 +0100 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: [doug@cs.dartmouth.edu: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word] References: <20120109041441.GF18528@iris.usta.de> In-Reply-To: <20120109041441.GF18528@iris.usta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > i have to share this, even though it's arguable mildly off topic, > but then again, not that much. This is among the most hilarious > postings i have seen in some time. Or rather, you don't know whether > you should feel like laughing - or crying. > > I mean, requesting a paper by Malcolm Douglas McIlroy for a journal, > than telling him that you accept "any kind of digital text--as > long as it's Word or RTF"? Oh boy! > > In case anybody can help him, please do so, and thank him for > writing runoff - and for his major contributions to AT&T Unix. > But to be frank, i have very little hope for his case. > > Maybe he should just drop Bill Gates a mail and kindly ask him, > as his younger colleague, who is in part clearly building on his, > Doug's, work, whether he can quickly hack up four small preprocessor > scripts for him, taking tbl(7), eqn(7), pic(7), and roff(7) input, > that he can use as as filters to pipe into MS Word... I saw this too and it's quite silly -- I wonder which journal? I guess most non-scientific journals (and magazines, of course) accept strange formats like that... Ingo, maybe it's time for a -Tdocx output mode? ;) (I wonder if this is possible... if we had a -Txml, which would be pretty easy, then you could translate--gah! No!) Doug was a great help for the manpages history -- he even took the time to scan some of his original roff and runoff manuals (you can find them in the 1969 runoff section). Speaking of which, it'd be neat to have an adjoining mini-project for manpage utilities. Ingo, I know you've also been digging around 1BSD and 2BSD... I wonder if Bill Joy would field some questions about the origins of man(1)? (And why are the BSD manpages suffixed in .u?) In fact, I can find a man shellscript in PWB/UNIX-1.0 (1977) and then 1BSD as C souce (1978). I wonder who wrote the Very First Version? Best, Kristaps -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv