From: Eric Allman <tuhs@eric.allman.name>
To: saint.snit@gmail.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] revision history of troff -me macro set?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:57:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16bdccff-b3e8-509e-7cb2-9306ec657113@neophilic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f5fc849.1c69fb81.8127c.ee16@mx.google.com>
I've got the SCCS files for tmac.e through 2.14 (12/28/1981). I'm not
sure what happened to later versions.
eric
On 2020-09-14 12:33 , saint.snit@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a repository of historical versions of Eric Allman's -me macro
> set for troff?
>
> (For some context: the macro set has been forked to operate with two
> modern troff implementations: GNU groff and Heirloom troff. According
> to the header blocks of the respective files, groff's -me macros are
> forked from version 2.31 of Allman's, and Heirloom's from version 2.14.
> For help in debugging -me problems in these troff implementations,
> I'm trying to locate at least these versions of the -me package as they
> existed before forking. I posted this query on the troff email list,
> but no one there knew the answer, and one person suggested I ask here.)
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 19:33 saint.snit
2020-09-14 20:02 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-14 20:08 ` Henry Bent
2020-09-14 20:57 ` Eric Allman [this message]
2020-09-14 21:41 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2020-09-17 6:20 saint.snit
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