i was a TA for the course which used this as a textbook.
my memory is little faded on this (it was on the other side of my stroke),
but i believe they were perfect bound (cloth strip and glue) and had
two different colors for the covers (i want to say orange and red).
they might have been just stapled but they were thick enough that staples
might have been insufficient.

i certainly remember john printing them off on the DEC printer.

as for the permissions, i can’t recall anything at the time (this was about 45 years ago),
but do remember the fuss at the Labs when Bell Labs started printing their own
high security copies just a couple of years later.

   andrew hume

On Nov 1, 2020, at 9:07 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

Warner Losh and I have been discussing the early history of John

Lions' "A commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System".

I've been hosting Warren Toomey's version (with some correction of

scan errors) at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/ for

some years now, and my understanding had been that the book hadn't

been published, just photocopied, until Warren posted it on

alt.folklore.computers in 1994.  But now it seems that the "book" had

been published by UNSW when Lions held the course, and only later was

the license revoked.  Does anybody have any insights?  What

restrictions were there on its distribution?  What was the format?

Was it a real book, or just bound notes?

Greg

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