From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:36:02 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: Missing Documents for use with the Unix Time-Sharing System, Sixth Edition In-Reply-To: References: <56A3BF4E.9020403@gmail.com> Message-ID: <56A3E432.3090604@gmail.com> On 1/23/16 2:00 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Clem Cole* > > Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Missing Documents for use with the Unix > Time-Sharing System, Sixth Edition > To: Will Senn > > > > below.... > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Will Senn > wrote: > > All, > > The Unix Sixth edition programmer's manual and other documents for > use with Unix time-sharing system are available online, in html > and postscript form from Wolfgang Helbig's site: > > http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/doc/index.html > > > There are papers some missing from the "Documents for use with the > Unix Time-Sharing System": > > ​ Hmm - these should be with the v6 distribution - some of them are > coming with later editions... and except for updates to said system > will be go'nuf > > That said you are asking about the versions from v6. I do not seem > to have hardcopies easy to find. I'll keep looking there is some > stuff in my attic. > ​ > > > RATFOR - A Preprocessor for Rational Fortran > NROFF User's Manual > A Manual for Tmg Compiler-writing Language > > ​ This is the doc that you might not find in other places, as I think > tmg stopped being distributed at some point. Doug as one of the > authors I believe may know the story. ​ > > > On the Security of UNIX > The M6 Macro Processor > > ​I think you mean m4 not m6​ > > A System for Typesetting Mathematics > DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator > BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language > The Portable C Library (on UNIX) > UNIX Summary > > Some of these are more interesting to me than others, but I tend > towards shiny objects, so there is no telling when they will be of > critical interest in the future. I have done quite a bit of > searching for the NROFF document and the portable C library > document and while I have found related works, I haven't come > across the originals for sixth edition. Do any of y'all know where > any or all of these documents are archived in their > original/reproduced form? > > > > Warren's V6 seems have many of them in: > http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v6/v6doc.tar.gz > > Thanks for the reply. The nroff source for a lot of these is indeed on the distribution tape. So... my followup question is how can I convert it to pdf or ps? In v6: # cd /usr/doc/iolib # nroff iolib The Portable C Library (on UNIX) * M. E. Lesk 1. INTRODUCTION The C langlage [1] now exists on three operating systems. * This do- clment is an abbreviated form of ``The Portable C Library'', by M. E. Lesk, describing only the UNIX section of the library. A ... pected to make any sense of it on retlrn. The first arglment is ... Mangled. But when I took the source and copied it onto my mac and did this: groff -t iolib ps2pdf iolib.ps open iolib.pdf The result was ok and is attached, but the format is ugly. Here is the first bit of source. Is it roff/nroff? and is my approach to conversion reasonable? .ds s \\s8 .ds S \\s0 .ds * \v'.2m'*\v'-.2m' .tr ~. .ds . \s14~\s0 .tr _\(ul .de sn .sp .ft I .ne 2 .. .de sN .sp .5 .ft R .. .TL The Portable C Library (on \s-2UNIX\s0) * .AU M. E. Lesk .AI .MH .SH 1. INTRODUCTION .PP The C language [1] now exists on three operating systems. .FS * This document is an abbreviated form of ``The Portable C Library'', by M. E. Lesk, describing only the UNIX section of the library. .FE A set of library routines common to Thanks, Will -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: iolib.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 25796 bytes Desc: not available URL: