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 in v4 as: TROFF Made Trivial (unpublished),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. :)
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Leah Neukirchen <leah at vuxu.org> http://leah.zone
next prev parent 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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