[TUHS] 8th ed manual sets

[arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)]

Hi All. A while back Tim wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:25:00 -1000 (HST)
> From: Tim Newsham <newsham at lava.net>
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Cc: Uriel <uriel99 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [TUHS] 8th ed manual sets
>
> This might be of interest to people on this list (originally
> posted to the 9fans list):
>
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Uriel wrote:
> > Thanks to Fish's contribution I have made the Unix 8th Edition manuals
> > available at:
> >
> > http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/
> >
> > [ ... ]

I asked about a tarball on 9fans, and got this reply to the list, which
I'm forwarding here:

| From: 0intro at gmail.com (David du Colombier)
| Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets
| Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:25:28 GMT
| 
| > 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.
| 
| I temporary put it online [1]. Feel free to mirror it.
| 
| I obtained this stuff from an generous anonymous
| donor few years ago.
| 
| I thought it would be better to share it.
| 
| [1] http://www.9grid.fr/man.tar.bz2
| 
| -- 
| David du Colombier

I sent Warren a copy of the tarball.  If I can steal the hour, I
may try to create a PDF, just for the fun of trying.  Feel free to
beat me to it. :-)

Thanks,

Arnold
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