I still have the original MERT 0 Release manual. But I do
not have a manual page for lines(V). I do have the manual
pages for getty(VIII) and init(VIII). They are also still online here:
If you need copies of these two files let me know.
Thanks.
Heinz
On 7/8/2024 4:45 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
Good afternoon, I was wondering if anyone currently on
list is in possession of a copy of the UNIX Programmer's Manual for Program Generic
Issue 3 from March of 1977. This is the version nestled between Issue 2 which Al Kossow
has preserved here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/6th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_1…
and the MERT 0 release provided by I believe Heinz Lycklama here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/MERT_Release_0/
If I might make a request of anyone having such a copy, could I trouble you for at the
very least scans of the lines(V), getty(VIII), and init(VIII) pages? I can't 100%
confirm the presence of the first page, but the instructions for replacing PG3 pages with
MERT0 pages above indicate a page called lines was present in section V of the PG3 manual,
and there is a fragment of a lines(5) page in the CB-UNIX 2.3 manual here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/CB_Unix/man/man5/lines.5.pdf
In short, lines there appears to be a predecessor to inittab(5) and, if the references in
CB and USG PG3 are the same, points to the earliest appearance in the wild of System
V-style init in PG3 all the way back in 1977. Granted we don't have earlier CB-UNIX
literature to wholly confirm whether this started in PG3 or some pre-'77 issue of
CB-UNIX, but I'm quite interested in seeing how these relate.
Thanks for any help!
- Matt G.