From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:23:00 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: Missing Documents for use with the Unix Time-Sharing System, Sixth Edition In-Reply-To: <56A3E432.3090604@gmail.com> References: <56A3BF4E.9020403@gmail.com> <56A3E432.3090604@gmail.com> Message-ID: Looks like -ms macros - which make sense because Mike Lesk wrote them. groff -Tps -ms iolib > iolib.ps ps2pdf iolib On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Will Senn wrote: > > > 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 < > will.senn at gmail.com> 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: