[TUHS] Program Generic Issue 3 Init System?

[TUHS] Program Generic Issue 3 Init System?

[segaloco via TUHS]

Good afternoon, I was wondering if anyone currently on list is in possession of a copy of the UNIX Programmer's Manual for Program Generic Issue 3 from March of 1977.  This is the version nestled between Issue 2 which Al Kossow has preserved here:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/6th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_197601.pdf

and the MERT 0 release provided by I believe Heinz Lycklama here:

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/MERT_Release_0/

If I might make a request of anyone having such a copy, could I trouble you for at the very least scans of the lines(V), getty(VIII), and init(VIII) pages?  I can't 100% confirm the presence of the first page, but the instructions for replacing PG3 pages with MERT0 pages above indicate a page called lines was present in section V of the PG3 manual, and there is a fragment of a lines(5) page in the CB-UNIX 2.3 manual here:

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/CB_Unix/man/man5/lines.5.pdf

In short, lines there appears to be a predecessor to inittab(5) and, if the references in CB and USG PG3 are the same, points to the earliest appearance in the wild of System V-style init in PG3 all the way back in 1977.  Granted we don't have earlier CB-UNIX literature to wholly confirm whether this started in PG3 or some pre-'77 issue of CB-UNIX, but I'm quite interested in seeing how these relate.

Thanks for any help!

- Matt G.

[TUHS] Re: Program Generic Issue 3 Init System?

[Heinz Lycklama]

I still have the original MERT 0 Release manual. But I do
not have a manual page for lines(V). I do have the manual
pages for getty(VIII) and init(VIII). They are also still online here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/MERT_Release_0/Unix%20Programmer%20Manual%20-%20UPM%20-%20White%20Tabs/System%20Programs%20-%20man8/
If you need copies of these two files let me know.

Thanks.

Heinz

On 7/8/2024 4:45 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Good afternoon, I was wondering if anyone currently on list is in possession of a copy of the UNIX Programmer's Manual for Program Generic Issue 3 from March of 1977.  This is the version nestled between Issue 2 which Al Kossow has preserved here:
>
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/6th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_197601.pdf
>
> and the MERT 0 release provided by I believe Heinz Lycklama here:
>
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/MERT_Release_0/
>
> If I might make a request of anyone having such a copy, could I trouble you for at the very least scans of the lines(V), getty(VIII), and init(VIII) pages?  I can't 100% confirm the presence of the first page, but the instructions for replacing PG3 pages with MERT0 pages above indicate a page called lines was present in section V of the PG3 manual, and there is a fragment of a lines(5) page in the CB-UNIX 2.3 manual here:
>
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/CB_Unix/man/man5/lines.5.pdf
>
> In short, lines there appears to be a predecessor to inittab(5) and, if the references in CB and USG PG3 are the same, points to the earliest appearance in the wild of System V-style init in PG3 all the way back in 1977.  Granted we don't have earlier CB-UNIX literature to wholly confirm whether this started in PG3 or some pre-'77 issue of CB-UNIX, but I'm quite interested in seeing how these relate.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> - Matt G.