17 Sep
2024
17 Sep
'24
8:33 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
A big reason why I hate perfect-bound books.
Most of the books, though, I have that _aren't_ perfect-bound are
religious in nature.
-uso.
V9 you say...does your setup happen to have the
on-line manpages by
any chance? I don't think a surviving copy is in the TUHS archive.
V9 is a tad bit fragmentary in the archive at present from what I can
tell, it may be worth seeing if anything you have fills in blanks.
I have real Bell Labs V8 and V9 manuals. The former is comb-bound like
the System III manual, and was a gift obtained via BWK. I paid $50
for the latter; I remember exhchanging email with Doug about getting
it. He said something like "I have to check if we can sell one to you." :-)
This was circa 1993, I don't remember exactly.
The V9 manual is perfect bound. I'd offer it for scanning, except
that that would mean destroying the binding, which I'm very loath
to do.
Arnold