[TUHS] 8th ed manual sets

[TUHS] 8th ed manual sets

[Tim Newsham]

This might be of interest to people on this list (originally
posted to the 9fans list):

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Uriel wrote:
> Thanks to Fish's contribution I have made the Unix 8th Edition manuals
> available at:
>
> http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/
>
> Tons of fascinating stuff there, including the jerq docs in section 9
> ( http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/9/ ) and what I think is the oldest
> documentation of the /proc file system
> (http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc ).
>
> Fish also contributed some pages from section 1 of the Unix Writer's
> Workbench: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/
>
> Thanks again to Fish for this wonderful contributions, and of course
> to the original authors of all this amazing material.
>
> Peace
>
> uriel
>
> P.S.: I'm still working out a couple of kinks in the web interface
> that make =(1) and Mail(1) inaccessible, but almost everything else
> should work fine, if you notice any problems please let me know.
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Uriel<uriel99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Slightly off topic (of this thread), but I'm looking for troff sources
>> of 8th, 9th, 10th and Plan 9 1st Editions to complete the man page
>> collections at http://man.cat-v.org
>>
>> If anyone knows where I can find copies of any of those, I would be
>> most grateful.
>>
>> uriel
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Benjamin
>> Huntsman<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
>>> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm striking out on google, and I'm virtually certain that someone here will know...
>>>
>>> Does anyone happen to have the ISBN's for the 7th Edition manual set?
>>> Volume I is 0-03-061742-1, but I can't seem to find the others...
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> -Ben
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
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[TUHS] 8th ed manual sets

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi All. A while back Tim wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:25:00 -1000 (HST)
> From: Tim Newsham <newsham at lava.net>
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Cc: Uriel <uriel99 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [TUHS] 8th ed manual sets
>
> This might be of interest to people on this list (originally
> posted to the 9fans list):
>
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Uriel wrote:
> > Thanks to Fish's contribution I have made the Unix 8th Edition manuals
> > available at:
> >
> > http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/
> >
> > [ ... ]

I asked about a tarball on 9fans, and got this reply to the list, which
I'm forwarding here:

| From: 0intro at gmail.com (David du Colombier)
| Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets
| Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:25:28 GMT
| 
| > Is a tarball of the 8th ed manual troff files available?
| >
| > The Unix Historical Society (see www.tuhs.org) would like to have this
| > too, I don't doubt.
| 
| I temporary put it online [1]. Feel free to mirror it.
| 
| I obtained this stuff from an generous anonymous
| donor few years ago.
| 
| I thought it would be better to share it.
| 
| [1] http://www.9grid.fr/man.tar.bz2
| 
| -- 
| David du Colombier

I sent Warren a copy of the tarball.  If I can steal the hour, I
may try to create a PDF, just for the fun of trying.  Feel free to
beat me to it. :-)

Thanks,

Arnold
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