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From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 21:46:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181026194636.GA11870@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)

The last couple of days I worked on re-setting the V3-V6 manuals.
I reconstructed V5 from the scan as best I could, unfortunately some
pages were missing.
You can find everything I used to do this here,
please read the BUGS section:
https://github.com/aap/unixman

The results can be found here, as HTML and PDF:
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/

Reconstructing V1 and V2 n?roff source and converting the tty 37 output
to ps is something I want to do too, but for now this was exhausting
enough. 

Now for the questions that I arose while I was doing this:
Are there scans of the V4 and V6 manual to check my pdfs against?
Where does the V5 manual come from? As explained in the README,
some pages are missing and some pages seem to be earlier than V4.
Is there another V5 manual that one could check against?
Why is lc (the LIL compiler) not in the TOC but has a page?

And most importantly: is the old troff really lost?
I would love to set the manual on the original systems
at some point (and write a CAT -> ps converter, which should be fun).
Doing all this work made me wish we still had earlier versions
of UNIX and its tools around.

Have fun with this!

aap

             reply	other threads:[~2018-10-26 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-26 19:46 Angelo Papenhoff [this message]
2018-10-26 19:57 ` Jim Capp
2018-10-26 20:41 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-26 21:05   ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 21:58     ` Bakul Shah
2018-10-26 20:59 ` Warren Toomey
2018-10-27 17:15   ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 17:41     ` Angelo Papenhoff
     [not found] ` <20181026214308.GA20796@minnie.tuhs.org>
     [not found]   ` <20181026221153.GA19920@indra.papnet.eu>
2018-10-26 22:29     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 23:06       ` Warner Losh
2018-10-26 23:46         ` Larry McVoy
2018-10-28 22:57 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-29  0:15   ` Clem cole
2018-11-01 17:21 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 11:59 Doug McIlroy
2018-10-27 12:28 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 13:07   ` Milo Velimirovic
2018-10-27 13:56     ` Toby Thain
2018-10-27 15:19     ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-10-27 15:53 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-27 16:25   ` Larry McVoy
2018-10-27 19:45   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-10-27 14:18 Nelson H. F. Beebe

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