1 Jan
2025
1 Jan
'25
7:37 a.m.
At 2025-01-01T07:46:28+1000, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
All, Yufeng Gao has done more amazing work at
extracting binaries,
source code and text documents from the DECtapes that Dennis Ritchie
provided for the Unix Archive:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/
His latest e-mail is below. I've temporarily placed his attachments
here: https://minnie.tuhs.org/wktcloud/index.php/s/aWkck2Ljay6c5sB
He needs some help with formatting old *roff documents. If someone
could offer him help, that would be great. His e-mail address is
yufeng.gao AT uq.edu.au
[...]
There are other overwritten files on the tapes, and
I will address
them later. There are quite a few patents, papers, and memos in
*roff format, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with them. Among
those, I have picked out some V4 distribution documents and
attached them as a ZIP folder :-). If you know of ways to generate
PDFs from these ancient *roff files accurately, please lend a hand
- I'm struggling to get accurate results from groff.
Hi Yufeng,
I maintain groff. How can I be of assistance?
Is there an exhibit of a troublesome document you'd like me to inspect?
(It's possible given the era that you have some roff(1) documents rather
than nroff(1) or troff(1) ones.)
Regards,
Branden