14 Sep
2019
14 Sep
'19
1:35 p.m.
Correct! I formatted the Third Edition manual with nroff rather than
troff, but, as you write, it could have been roff.
Only one man page file contains macro definitions:
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V3/man/manx/a…
and the man source files also contain the formatted output corresponding
to that file:
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V3/man/manx/a…
Furthermore, this file (and the others in the same directory — manx)
does not appear in the original Third Edition manual.
So most likely the man pages were formatted with roff, although nroff
existed and was documented at the time.
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V3/man/man1/n…
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/att/unix/3rd_Edition/UNIX_Programmer…
On 14-Sep-19 0:45, Clem Cole wrote:
Awesome -- great way to figure it out, although
I'm not sure 3rd edition
was nroff, I think it might have been roff. I think a smart test is to
check to see if those sources used a macro package or not. If not macro
package, I think that tells us that the likely formatting program was roff.