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From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] "Edition 0" manual
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:57:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151124025754.GA13195@www.oztivo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201511240155.tAO1tap2016965@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:55:36PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Among the papers of the late Bob Morris I have found a
> Unix manual that I don't remember at all--a draft by
> Dennis Ritchie, in the style of (but not designated as)
> a technical report with numbered sections and subsections.
> It does not resemble the familiar layout of the numbered
> editions. Besides the usual overview of kernel and shell,
> it describes system calls and some commands, in a layout
> unrelated to the familiar man-page style. Detailed
> reference/tutorial manuals for as, roff, db and ed
> are included as appendices.
> 
> The famous and well-justified claim that "UNIX contains a numer
> of features very seldom offered even by larger systems"
> appears on page 1.
> 
> A little poking around tuhs.org didn't reveal a copy of
> this document. Does anybody know of one somewhere else?

No, I've not seen anything before Dennis' scan of the 1st
Edition manuals. Can you make a scan of this one available?

Many thanks, Warren



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24  1:55 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-24  2:57 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2015-11-24  3:55   ` arnold
2015-11-24  6:41 ` Random832
2015-11-28 23:24 ` [TUHS] Scan of " Warren Toomey
2015-11-29  2:01   ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-29 14:31     ` Clem cole
2015-11-29 20:21   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-11-29 20:40     ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2015-11-29 21:45       ` arnold
2015-11-30  4:02   ` John Cowan
2015-11-30  4:26     ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-26 14:09   ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-26 23:15     ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-26 23:46       ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-24 22:40 [TUHS] " Doug McIlroy
2015-11-25  5:08 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-25 15:44 ` Larry McVoy

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