[TUHS] Fwd: Old Unix manuals, TMs, etc

[clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)]

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Grant - the troff input for all of those titles you listed should be in the
/usr/doc directory in the V6 or V7 archives that Warren has.   It's pretty
easy to push them through groff, you may have to tweak the input a little
though.   Contact me off list if you still need help,

Clem
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On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <
tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:

> On 05/23/2018 12:39 PM, Mike Markowski wrote:
>
>> I contacted Mel and hope to hear back.  …
>> …  Someone else might have already been in touch,  …
>>
>
> I emailed Mel directly and expressed interest in the following books:
>
>  · The M4 Marco Processor
>  · SED - A Non-Interactive Text Editor
>  · Awk - A pattern Scanning and Processing Language
>  · Yacc: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
>  · RATFOR - A Preprocessor for a Rational Fortran
>
> Here's my comment as to why I'm interested in the aforementioned titles.
>
> I am interested in the following items if they are unclaimed.  I used sed
>> and awk on a daily basis.  I also have what some would consider an
>> unhealthy interest in M4.  I've written things in M4 that some might say
>> become their own markup language for config files.  Which is reminiscent of
>> what I think YACC is supposed to be, hence my interest in that Technical
>> Memorandum, to learn more.  RATFOR, likewise.
>>
>
> The only title that I'd *really* /like/ to get my hands on is "The M4
> Macro Processor".  (See aforementioned unhealthy interest in M4.)
>
> I'm quite happy to share with the community.  I just want to save the
> materials from the bin if nobody else claims them.
>
> Note:  I've not heard anything back from Mel yet.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
>
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