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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:38:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfoc9BJT1jCCAuUhTmyRWarpfumXhwrh2zWVawdy+2juTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W7M_v5mvLO5iXzu_67=Z4gHbMrtTFkbdYyNBxqxK=Sibw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 9:27 AM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:54 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> Too bad, they did not use the UNIX tool kit like troff and eqn which are
>> described in the paper itself, to restore it.  If you were going to the
>> trouble to make the 'md' file - it would have been just as easy to create
>> troff source.
>>
>
> In fairness, the Markdown renders directly from the github web UI, but I
> agree that using troff/eqn would have been nice. Surely it wouldn't be that
> hard to massage the markdown into troff markdown.
>

There are a few MD to troff converters, though I don't know how many will
convert to -ms format that was likely used historically. And given that ms
has a little more semantic info than MD does, there may be some manual
steps afterwards. Even a perfect converter would likely have manual steps
since it was also the custom back in the day to tweak this or that in the
output...

Warner

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-30 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30  3:10 Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30  8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25   ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38     ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-11-30 16:41       ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37   ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54     ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-30 18:25       ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37         ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11           ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49             ` Will Senn
2020-12-01  2:55             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46         ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-10 20:48       ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976)) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-10 21:44         ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 22:05         ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 21:58           ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-12  5:22             ` George Michaelson
2021-02-12 22:13             ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-12 22:18               ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-10 22:36         ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 23:05           ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11  0:27             ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11  0:36               ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11  1:53               ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11  1:59                 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11  2:04                   ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11  2:44                     ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11  3:02                       ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-11  4:07                         ` Toby Thain
2021-02-11 16:55                       ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 20:27                         ` John Cowan
2021-02-11  2:30                 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-11  2:52                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11  6:42                     ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-11  7:12                       ` Rob Pike
2021-02-11 13:06                         ` John Gilmore
2021-02-11 17:34                           ` Jon Forrest
2021-02-11 18:09                             ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 18:43                               ` Rich Morin
2020-12-01  3:59 ` [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) jason-tuhs
2020-12-01  4:03   ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01  9:27   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09   ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35     ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38     ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24       ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39         ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13           ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02  7:08             ` arnold
2020-12-02  7:29               ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39             ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24               ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44                 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50           ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47         ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49       ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams
     [not found] <CAMP=X_mO9oawUpHGOvgVtwVTgcmvdXAc5vrE_+s3d2NsH+1HgA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-01  0:00 ` Joachim via TUHS
2020-12-01  0:21   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01  2:23     ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01  3:13 Norman Wilson
2020-12-02  0:31 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-02  1:06   ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-02 17:02     ` John Cowan
     [not found] <CAKH6PiWA2uN4m0AGp7VRJTQ6XXDLJQweHoHjx2wN=zQYs1onpA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-03 20:31 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-03 20:37   ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-03 20:43     ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-03 20:56       ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-12-03 21:01       ` Ben Walton
2020-12-03 21:12       ` Clem Cole
2020-12-04  0:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-04  0:43         ` Rob Pike
2020-12-04  0:48           ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-04  1:25           ` Dan Cross
2020-12-04  9:27             ` arnold
2020-12-04 11:33               ` Andy Kosela
2020-12-04 13:14                 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:17                   ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 13:22                     ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:25                       ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04  0:45         ` George Michaelson
2020-12-04  1:10         ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-04  1:17           ` George Michaelson
2020-12-03 20:51     ` M Douglas McIlroy

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