From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: (qmail 24935 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2020 02:13:59 -0000 Received-SPF: pass (minnie.tuhs.org: domain of minnie.tuhs.org designates 45.79.103.53 as permitted sender) receiver=inbox.vuxu.org; client-ip=45.79.103.53 envelope-from= Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with UTF8ESMTPZ; 14 Apr 2020 02:13:59 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A8FDE9C74D; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:13:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC8893D3C; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:13:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8766893D3C; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:13:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (mail.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.100]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17A9D93D2D for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:13:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.212.20]) by mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 03E2DINK2714193 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:13:18 -0400 Received: from tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.14.3) with ESMTP id 03E2DInc002572 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:13:18 -0400 Received: (from doug@localhost) by tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 03E2DHF1002571 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:13:17 -0400 From: Doug McIlroy Message-Id: <202004140213.03E2DHF1002571@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:13:17 -0400 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > Indeed the Unix manuals were available as printed books. Volume One was the manual pages and Volume Two the articles from /usr/doc. I remember seeing soft-cover bound copies of the 7th Edition manuals, ... > I think the next time this happened in the exact same way was with the "Unix Research System Tenth Edition" books published by Saunders College Publishing in 1990. Those were the only two that were published as trade books. I still use the 10th Ed regularly. The 7th Ed was a debacle. The publisher didn't bother to send us galleys because they had printed straight from troff. It turned out they did not have the full troff character set, and put an @ sign in place of each missing character. The whole print run was done before we saw a copy. Not knowing whether they ever fixed it, I'd be interested to hear whether or not the botch made it to bookstores. Doug