From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: 4.3BSD User Contributed Software Volume?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:07:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZI5Yzf63e8JgyrHX@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
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On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 07:37:55PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Hello, I've come across something in a bookshelf up at the local
> university that I have thus far been unsuccessful at locating online.
>
> It's a binder amongst other 4.3BSD binders like the reference manuals
> and supplementary documents but this one is labeled "User Contributed
> Software (UCS)". I can't find any of these in the doc folder of
> the 4.3BSD copies in the archive nor can I find a scan of the
> originals. There is an overview at the start listing the following
> packages: B, X, ansi (VAX tape tools), apl, bib, courier, cpm,
> dipress, dsh, emacs, enet, help, hyper, icon, jove, kermit, mh,
> mkmf, mmdf, news, notes, npl00, patch, path alias, rcs, rn, spms,
> sumacc, sunrpc, tac, tools, umodem, and xns.
Al Kossow scanned the Mt Xinu version including that page
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_mtXinuMTXI_25102566/page/n1/mode/2up
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mtXinu/MT_XINU_UCS_Apr_1986.pdf
>
> There are a preponderance of man pages as well as some focused
> papers for B, SPMS, the Icon programming language, and MMDFII. I
> didn't scribble down more notes before heading home because I figured
> this was something I'd find on page one of an internet search, but
> thus far have had no luck. If I don't turn up a digital copy soon
> I might just have to make another trip up there soon with my flatbed
> scanner. In any case I left a note too hoping whoever the curator
> of that bookshelf is (it was in some club room) might have the scoop
> on those binders, if they're left over from some long gone 4.3BSD
> installation in the EE/CS department and if they might have some
> siblings in other bookshelves nearby.
>
> - Matt G.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-18 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-17 19:37 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-17 20:23 ` [TUHS] " Jeremy C. Reed
2023-06-17 20:37 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2023-06-17 20:48 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-18 1:07 ` Jonathan Gray [this message]
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