24 Jan
2016
24 Jan
'16
2:36 a.m.
On 1/23/16 2:00 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
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From: *Clem Cole* <clemc(a)ccc.com <mailto:clemc@ccc.com>>
Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Missing Documents for use with the Unix
Time-Sharing System, Sixth Edition
To: Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com <mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>>
below....
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com
<mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>> wrote:
All,
The Unix Sixth edition programmer's manual and other documents for
use with Unix time-sharing system are available online, in html
and postscript form from Wolfgang Helbig's site:
http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/doc/index.html
<http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/%7Ehelbig/os/v6/doc/index.html>
There are papers some missing from the "Documents for use with the
Unix Time-Sharing System":
Hmm - these should be with the v6 distribution - some of them are
coming with later editions... and except for updates to said system
will be go'nuf
That said you are asking about the versions from v6. I do not seem
to have hardcopies easy to find. I'll keep looking there is some
stuff in my attic.
RATFOR - A Preprocessor for Rational Fortran
NROFF User's Manual
A Manual for Tmg Compiler-writing Language
This is the doc that you might not find in other places, as I think
tmg stopped being distributed at some point. Doug as one of the
authors I believe may know the story.
On the Security of UNIX
The M6 Macro Processor
I think you mean m4 not m6
A System for Typesetting Mathematics
DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator
BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language
The Portable C Library (on UNIX)
UNIX Summary
Some of these are more interesting to me than others, but I tend
towards shiny objects, so there is no telling when they will be of
critical interest in the future. I have done quite a bit of
searching for the NROFF document and the portable C library
document and while I have found related works, I haven't come
across the originals for sixth edition. Do any of y'all know where
any or all of these documents are archived in their
original/reproduced form?
Warren's V6 seems have many of them in:
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v6/v6doc.t…
Thanks for the reply. The nroff source for a lot of these is indeed on
the distribution tape. So... my followup question is how can I convert
it to pdf or ps?
In v6:
# cd /usr/doc/iolib
# nroff iolib
The Portable C Library (on UNIX) * M. E. Lesk 1. INTRODUCTION The
C langlage [1] now exists on three operating systems. * This do-
clment is an abbreviated form of ``The Portable C Library'', by
M. E. Lesk, describing only the UNIX section of the library. A
...
pected to make any sense of it on retlrn. The first arglment is
...
Mangled. But when I took the source and copied it onto my mac and did this:
groff -t iolib
ps2pdf iolib.ps
open iolib.pdf
The result was ok and is attached, but the format is ugly. Here is the
first bit of source. Is it roff/nroff? and is my approach to conversion
reasonable?
.ds s \\s8
.ds S \\s0
.ds * \v'.2m'*\v'-.2m'
.tr ~.
.ds . \s14~\s0
.tr _\(ul
.de sn
.sp
.ft I
.ne 2
..
.de sN
.sp .5
.ft R
..
.TL
The Portable C Library (on \s-2UNIX\s0) *
.AU
M. E. Lesk
.AI
.MH
.SH
1. INTRODUCTION
.PP
The C language [1] now exists on three operating systems.
.FS
* This document is an abbreviated form of
``The Portable C Library'', by M. E. Lesk, describing only
the UNIX section of the library.
.FE
A set of library routines common to
Thanks,
Will