On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 11:31 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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 > -- > Sent from my desktop computer. > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program > reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA >