[TUHS] "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

[TUHS] "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi All.

Mike Lesk sent me the paper and gave me permission to send it out.
See attached.

Warren, please find a spot for this in the archives.

Thanks!

Arnold
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No objection.  There can't be anything proprietary after this many years.
Michael


On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> Michael Lesk <lesk at rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
>> Found an electronic copy.  Attached as source.  Let me know
>> if you would like me to try to run it through groff and give
>> you pdf.
>
> Thanks!  I can try that myself.
>
> Do you have objections to my passing this on to the Unix Historical
> Society?
>
> Arnold
>

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[TUHS] "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

[John Cowan]

Aharon Robbins scripsit:

> Mike Lesk sent me the paper and gave me permission to send it out.
> See attached.

What's the correct troff command line to format this?

-- 
It was dreary and wearisome.  Cold clammy winter still held sway in this
forsaken country.  The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark
greasy surfaces of the sullen waters.  Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed
up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers.
        --"The Passage of the Marshes"          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

[TUHS] "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

[arnold]

> > Mike Lesk sent me the paper and gave me permission to send it out.
> > See attached.

John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> What's the correct troff command line to format this?

First, edit post.tm and change the PO font to CW.  Then

	refer post.tm | pic | troff -ms | ps2pdf - post.pdf

I sent Warren (off list) a copy that I dorked with a bit, using groff and
the original V7 ms macros to produce a farily authentic looking Bell Labs
style memorandum.  He answered that he is out of the country but will
deal with putting things into the archive when he gets back.

Thanks,

Arnold

[TUHS] "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

[John Cowan]

arnold at skeeve.com scripsit:

> First, edit post.tm and change the PO font to CW.  Then
> 
> 	refer post.tm | pic | troff -ms | ps2pdf - post.pdf

I changed the line terminators to LFs and removed the undefined .TM
macro in line 3 of post.tm.  I then got these errors from troff:

post.tm:116: macro error: unknown reference type `5'
post.tm:208: macro error: unknown reference type `5'

Dr. Google can provide no explanation of these.  Lines 116 and 208 (or
117 and 209 of the original source) are ordinary lines of text with
no special controls.

Then I get the following error from ps2pdf:

Error: /undefined in x
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1910   1   3   %oparray_pop   1909   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893   1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1171/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

The resulting PDF contains a single blank page.

I'm using groff 1.21 and GPL Ghostscript 9.06.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them
alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag
went over me.  I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am
Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.  --Bilbo to Smaug

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[Cyrille Lefevre]

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Le 15/02/2013 09:18, John Cowan a écrit :
> arnold at skeeve.com scripsit:
>
>> First, edit post.tm and change the PO font to CW.  Then
>>
>> 	refer post.tm | pic | troff -ms | ps2pdf - post.pdf
 >>
>
> I changed the line terminators to LFs and removed the undefined .TM
> macro in line 3 of post.tm.  I then got these errors from troff:
>
> post.tm:116: macro error: unknown reference type `5'
> post.tm:208: macro error: unknown reference type `5'
>
> Dr. Google can provide no explanation of these.  Lines 116 and 208 (or
> 117 and 209 of the original source) are ordinary lines of text with
> no special controls.
>
> Then I get the following error from ps2pdf:
>
> Error: /undefined in x
> Operand stack:

take a look at your file content, this is not postscript, but ditroff 
intermediate output.

using DWB, the dpost filter should be added.

refer post.tm | pic | troff -ms | dpost | ps2pdf - post.pdf

using GROFF, groff should be used instead of troff.

refer post.tm | pic | groff -ms | ps2pdf - post.pdf

using DWB, the AT&T Bell Labs logo looks perfect ;^)

http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post.pdf

PS : DWB is here :

http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/dwb.1993-02-04.tgz

to build DWB under cygwin, use this patch :

http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/dwb/dwb.1993-02-04.2011-05-29.patch.bz2

also, DWBHOME should be exported to the installation path.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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[Cyrille Lefevre]

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Le 15/02/2013 12:59, Cyrille Lefevre a écrit :
<snip>
> take a look at your file content, this is not postscript, but ditroff
> intermediate output.
>
> using DWB, the dpost filter should be added.

also, as someone on the list did me, the output was incomplete !

first of, forgot to say that DWB is missing refer, so I use the GNU one.
after some investigations, I found that DWB pic eat a great part
of the initial document. the use of GNU pic -n solve the problem.
refer may be used w/ or w/o the -e option, I prefer w/o.

the final commands are :

export DWBHOME=/opt/dwb

ln -s CW $DWBHOME/lib/font/devpost/PO

dos2unix < post.tm  |
refer | pic -n |
/opt/dwb/bin/troff -ms |
/opt/dwb/bin/dpost |
tee post.ps | ps2pdf - post.pdf

using DWB, the AT&T Bell Labs logo looks perfect ;^)

http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post.ps
http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post.pdf
http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post-e.ps
http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post-e.pdf

> PS : DWB is here :
>
> http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/tgz/dwb.1993-02-04.tgz
>
> to build DWB under cygwin, use this patch :
>
> http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/dwb/dwb.1993-02-04.2011-05-29.patch.bz2
>
> also, DWBHOME should be exported to the installation path.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
-- 
mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists at laposte.net

[TUHS] "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

[Steve Simon]

>	refer post.tm | pic | troff -ms | ps2pdf - post.pdf

I have put a copy rendered on plan9 which looks OK, though
the Lucent logo doesn't fit properly on the cover sheet and
looks a bit out of character with the age of the paper,
but it will do until somone generates a better one.

http://www.quintile.net/doorstep/Electronic_Mail_Without_Aliases.pdf

-Steve
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[Warren Toomey]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 08:20:34PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi All.
> Mike Lesk sent me the paper and gave me permission to send it out.
> See attached.
> Warren, please find a spot for this in the archives.

I've put in at
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/Email_No_Aliases/

Thanks,
	Warren