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From: leah@vuxu.org (Leah Neukirchen)
Subject: [TUHS] TROFF made trivial
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:15:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efosgfh2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <943d7158-b639-9c4a-28a8-b84f8997a801@gmail.com> (Will Senn's message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:41:14 -0600")

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Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/20/17 4:00 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Leah Neukirchen <leah at vuxu.org
>> <mailto:leah at vuxu.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I found this paper by bwk referenced in the Unix manpages,
>>     in v4 as: TROFF Made Trivial (unpublished),
>>     in v5 as: TROFF Made Trivial (internal memorandom),
>>     also in the v6 "Unix Reading List",
>>     but not anymore in v7.
>>
>>     Anyone have a copy or a scan?
>>
>>
>> Or is this some subtle in-joke they got tired of explaining :)
>>
>> Warner
>
> Is it what became known as "A TROFF Tutorial" in Volume 2 of the v7
> manual and was available as early as October 11, 1976 as referenced by
> Ossana in NROFF⁄TROFF User’s Manual as:
>
> 1.
>
>    [5]  B. W. Kernighan, A TROFF Tutorial, Bell Laboratories internal
>    memorandum

Ah, very good, thank you.  I have a copy of Volume 2.

I guess the original title was deemed inapplicable. :)

-- 
Leah Neukirchen  <leah at vuxu.org>  http://leah.zone


  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-21  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-20 21:55 Leah Neukirchen
2017-11-20 22:00 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-20 22:41   ` Will Senn
2017-11-21  9:15     ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2017-11-21 12:54       ` arnold
2017-11-21 18:43         ` Mutiny 

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