From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: v6 Unix Documents
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 14:36:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZxMpJWGhwvUKQyY_@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241018135806.ysgog7qde6xjodtu@illithid>
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 08:58:06AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> Noteworthy but frustrating here is that at this point, the forerunner of
> CSTR #54 was still titled simply "NROFF Users' Manual" (PDF pp. 173ff.).
> References to troff are present, but the typesetting program is not
> fully documented. Frustrating!
PWB was an early external distribution with troff.
Documents for the PWB/UNIX Time-Sharing System
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:30007124
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/
NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
October 11, 1976
datamuseum.dk, pp 325-357
bitsavers, pp 217-249
Addendum to the NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
May 1977
datamuseum.dk, p 358
bitsavers, p 250
fonts described in:
Administrative Advice for PWB/UNIX
23. PHOTOTYPESETTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
datamuseum.dk, p 647
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-19 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-18 2:19 [TUHS] " Dan Plassche
2024-10-18 13:58 ` [TUHS] " G. Branden Robinson
2024-10-18 14:02 ` Al Kossow
2024-10-19 3:36 ` Jonathan Gray [this message]
[not found] ` <f4e18bf1-98bb-8844-c102-2a1b00fbab15@gmail.com>
2024-10-20 9:39 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-10-21 0:30 ` [TUHS] Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: Re: v6 Unix Documents) Dan Plassche
2024-10-21 2:47 ` [TUHS] " Jonathan Gray
2024-12-01 3:28 ` Dan Plassche
2024-10-20 9:41 ` [TUHS] Re: v6 Unix Documents Dan Plassche
2024-10-20 9:12 ` Dan Plassche
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