[TUHS] C reference manual

[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, another one

[asbesto]

Il Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:19:12PM +0200, Aharon Robbins rigurgitava:

> 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

well,

we at freaknet medialab have a strange copy of a TROFF book. here's
the intro:

----------------------snip--------------------
.fp 3 G
.TL
C Reference Manual
.AU
Dennis M. Ritchie
.AI
.MH
.sp
May 1, 1977
.PP
.SH
.ti 0
1.  Introduction
.LP
C is a computer language which offers
a rich selection of operators and data types
and the ability to impose useful structure
on both control flow and data.
All the basic operations and data objects
-------------------------snip------------------

maybe can be useful for historical purpose ? what about the (C) 
and the rights about this ? 

that come from Martin Guy. can we publish it ? it's useful ? 

om mani padme hum, 

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