23 Jul
2018
23 Jul
'18
3:55 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:12:49AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile(a)majumdar.org.uk>
wrote:
I actually wacked a bunch of the Unix docs to make them look a little
better, I should see if I can find that.
I agree that roff is awesome, it's a bummer that Latex seems to be
the winner (which I think is purely because the roff/eqn/pic/etc
docs weren't widely available back in the day).
It seems that Dennis Ritchie wrote a paper 'A Tour through the Unix C
Compiler' which is quite useful in understanding the compiler. I have
converted the doc to Markdown format as well which makes it easier to
read.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/belllabs-microsite-plan9/7thEdMan/bswv7.…
???You might try downloading the PDF or PS versions of the V7 documents from
amazon. It seems like a lot less work work and will be a lot easier to
read. Also Gnu groff runs on pretty much everything these days, so going
from the V7 troff sources yourself is not difficult; in fact its pretty
smart. Its still the best 'pure document compiler' out there. And it
means you can add your additions/ corrections / notes to what Dennis did
right inline.