[TUHS] C reference manual

[TUHS] C reference manual

[Ian King]

I have an original (in print) of the C reference manual from Unix 6th Ed, as
part of a multipart binder titled "Documents for Use With the Unix
Timesharing System", as well as the "UNIX Programmer's Manual", which is a
print copy of the man pages.  I could probably scan the C ref in my copious
spare time, if you're not in a hurry.  Warren, do you want to archive stuff
like this?  -- Ian

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I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time between
the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came with 4.3BSD
(1986). The stuff in the TUHS archive mostly seems to be missing the
documentation sets, or in the case of the earlier BSDs they are ommitted
for copyright reasons. There are some tutorials dating from about 1979
but they aren't much use.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tony.
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[TUHS] C reference manual

[Warren Toomey]

In article by Ian King:
> I have an original (in print) of the C reference manual from Unix 6th Ed, as
> part of a multipart binder titled "Documents for Use With the Unix
> Timesharing System", as well as the "UNIX Programmer's Manual", which is a
> print copy of the man pages.  I could probably scan the C ref in my copious
> spare time, if you're not in a hurry.  Warren, do you want to archive stuff
> like this?  -- Ian

Oh yes!
	Warren

[TUHS] C reference manual

[Aharon Robbins]

If anyone has one of the SCO Ancient Unix licenses and a copy of the
archive that went with it, then they legally have the source to System
III.  If such a person extracts sys3.tar.gz and looks in usr/src/man/docs
they'll find a file named `c_man' with the actual manual in it.  I quote:

	...
	.SH "1.  INTRODUCTION"
	.PP
	This manual
	.FS
	.ps +1
	\(dg This manual is reprinted, with minor changes, from
	.I "The C Programming Language"
	by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,
	Prentice Hall, Inc., 1978.
	.ps
	.FE
	describes the C language
	...

What the legalities are of redistributing this, and/or generating
postscript from it, are, I don't know.  Similar questions apply
to scanning in the ref man from a copy of K&R-I, which is now
out of print. (I wish Caldera had included System III in their
releasing of Ancient Unix. Sigh.)

I hope this helps, some.

Arnold

P.S. Completely unrelated, but I find it really cool how much of
the System III doc refers to C and Unix on the System/370...

> Subject: Re: [TUHS] C reference manual
> From: norman at nose.cs.utoronto.ca (Norman Wilson)
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:13:22 -0400
>
> To forestall those who haven't looked: the good news is that
> the papers from Volume 2 of the manual were included in /usr/doc
> on the V7 tape; the bad news is that the C Reference Manual was
> omitted.  Here is /usr/doc/cman in its entirety:
>
>   Sorry, but for copyright reasons, the source
>   for the C Reference Manual is not distributed.
>
> Presumably the problem was that the Reference Manual was published
> as part of the a real book in 1978.
>
> I forget just what Tony was after in the first place, but maybe
> some of the stuff on Dennis Ritchie's home page will help:
> 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html
> In particular the Sixth Edtion version of the C Reference Manual
> is there.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON

[TUHS] C reference manual

[Norman Wilson]

To forestall those who haven't looked: the good news is that
the papers from Volume 2 of the manual were included in /usr/doc
on the V7 tape; the bad news is that the C Reference Manual was
omitted.  Here is /usr/doc/cman in its entirety:

  Sorry, but for copyright reasons, the source
  for the C Reference Manual is not distributed.

Presumably the problem was that the Reference Manual was published
as part of the a real book in 1978.

I forget just what Tony was after in the first place, but maybe
some of the stuff on Dennis Ritchie's home page will help:
	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html
In particular the Sixth Edtion version of the C Reference Manual
is there.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

[TUHS] C reference manual

[helbig]

Hallo,
Most, if not all, of the V6-docs was distributed with V6 as troff sources.
At
	http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/
you'll find postscript versions of these docs.

Have fun,
Wolfgang
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[TUHS] C reference manual

[Tony Finch]

Thanks to those who offered copies of the 6th Edition C reference manual,
but I was after something from the 7th Edition or even later. (There's
already a copy of the 6th Edition doc sources in the TUHS archive.)

Tony.
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[TUHS] C reference manual

[Tony Finch]

I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time
between the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came
with 4.3BSD (1986). The stuff in the TUHS archive mostly seems to
be missing the documentation sets, or in the case of the earlier
BSDs they are ommitted for copyright reasons. There are some
tutorials dating from about 1979 but they aren't much use.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tony.
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DOGGER: NORTHEAST 6 TO GALE 8 BACKING NORTHWEST 4 OR 5. RAIN OR SHOWERS.
MODERATE OR GOOD.