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 16694 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2020 05:30:59 -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 05:30:59 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D39AC9C73A; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6021E93D5D; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5E94D93D5D; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC2C93D2D for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (aussie-gw.lemis.com [167.179.139.35]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428922809A; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 87B33263596; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:24 +1000 (AEST) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:24 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Doug McIlroy Message-ID: <20200414053024.GA67339@eureka.lemis.com> References: <202004140213.03E2DHF1002571@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202004140213.03E2DHF1002571@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) 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: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 13 April 2020 at 22:13:17 -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: > > 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. OK, I've dug out my copies. Two volumes, published by CBS College publishing, aka Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982, both titled "UNIX Programmer's Manual". Volume 1 (ISBN 0-03-061742-1) was the man pages, and volume 2 (ISBN 0-03-061743-X) was the supplementary docs, starting with =E2=80=9C7th Edition UNIX =E2=80=94 Summary=E2=80=9D, dated S= eptember 6, 1978. They have perforated, 3-hole punched pages, clearly intended to be torn out and put into a three-ring binder. I've skimmed through both of them, and I can't find any obvious typesetting errors. "Typesetting Mathematics" shows some quite complicated equations. And in the quick reference in volume 1, all the troff special characters seem right, even up to less common characters such as \(bs. Is there anything specific that I should look for? Scans available if they would help. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl6VSnAACgkQIubykFB6QiPO1ACfTXQHTwNhI9MeSaKVB6LYiPWD flUAn2CLqK5jjbkARqQwHgZWgCQIF75T =t4IW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT--