From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] History of man pages
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:04:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34F8DEFE-9667-4915-9A3F-703EE78C07E1@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120131015335.GA31880@minnie.tuhs.org>
Gosh, I'd forgotten about that. "Roff is the simplest of the text formatting programs but is utterly frozen."
They finally dragged me off troff in the mid-90's.
On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:36:31PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> I've received a link http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html claiming to
>> be about man pages; in fact, it's a lot more than that, including the
>> prehistory of troff. Interesting stuff.
>>
>> Greg
>
> Thanks Greg, yes a good read. Pity we've lost the PDP-11 asm
> version of roff from 1st/2nd Edition Unix.
> Warren
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 1:36 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-01-31 1:53 ` Warren Toomey
2012-01-31 13:04 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2012-01-31 15:49 ` Larry McVoy
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