Re: [TUHS] earliest Unix roff

I???ve forgotten but it could have been early on. Having /root as the super users home directory was on later systems. I thought Masscomp did that but I might be thinking Stellar by then. Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. > On Sep 16, 2019, at 9:17 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:11:17PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote: >>> On 9/16/2019 8:20 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: >>> One day I had been furiously editing a long program file for about an hour >>> and a half when I was called away to lunch, and, being hungry, didn't save >>> my file.?? When I got back to the terminal an hour later, I discovered two >>> things -- the system had crashed, and our cat had decided that the pile of >>> paper >>> on the floor made a great litter box.?? After a few choice words, I sighed >>> and picked up my highliter... >> >> This should be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Only because I had almost the >> same thing happen to me, without the cat though. I had a printout of a >> "mail" program I had written on TOPS-10 at high school. I had to retype the >> entire thing after the file got corrupted. > > I think we have all been there. Something always goes wrong. I wrote > a paper about how to restore a Masscomp because I did rm -rf . in /. > I believe we had roots home as / because /usr was a different partition. > Clem, did Masscomp make roots home / or was that us? Anyway, I did a > cd something > and somehow deleted the something and then did rm -rf . > Much fun was had, I was up all night putting things back together. > This was probably around 1984 or 1985, I was pretty green.