Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership

[Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>]

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 11:31 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 13 April 2020 at 22:13:17 -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> >
> > Those were the only two that were published as trade books. I still use
> > the 10th Ed regularly. The 7th Ed was a debacle. The publisher didn't
> > bother to send us galleys because they had printed straight from troff.
> > It turned out they did not have the full troff character set, and put
> > an @ sign in place of each missing character. The whole print run was
> > done before we saw a copy. Not knowing whether they ever fixed it, I'd
> > be interested to hear whether or not the botch made it to bookstores.
>
> OK, I've dug out my copies.  Two volumes, published by CBS College
> publishing, aka Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982, both titled "UNIX
> Programmer's Manual".  Volume 1 (ISBN 0-03-061742-1) was the man
> pages, and volume 2 (ISBN 0-03-061743-X) was the supplementary docs,
> starting with “7th Edition UNIX — Summary†, dated September 6, 1978.
> They have perforated, 3-hole punched pages, clearly intended to be
> torn out and put into a three-ring binder.
>
> I've skimmed through both of them, and I can't find any obvious
> typesetting errors.  "Typesetting Mathematics" shows some quite
> complicated equations.  And in the quick reference in volume 1, all
> the troff special characters seem right, even up to less common
> characters such as \(bs.  Is there anything specific that I should
> look for?  Scans available if they would help.
>

Mine are like that too. Maybe it was just wrong for the first printing?

Warner

Greg
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