[TUHS] re: C reference manual

The original question (from Ian KIng) was Some offered pointers to the 6th edition version (which is around both at TUHS and also on my own home page.) Norman observed that the standard V7 tapes omitted the C manual from the documentation set, because of the publication of K&R 1. However, it turns out that in our own paper-published version of the 7th edition, the then-current spec (very nearly what became Appendix A of K&R 1) was indeed printed. Probably some of these manuals were distributed to people who got the tapes at that point. The printed 7th edition also included a 1-page "Recent Pages to C" addendum, describing the enum type, and also confirming that structure assignment plus passing and receiving structures to functions (promised for the future in K&R 1) were available. At some point there may have been an updated version of this--I don't have it--confirming that the compiler now, indeed, treated same-named members of different structures as distinct and non-interfering. I retyped this addendum, and it's now on my home page. More lately, Aharon pointed out that SCO had offered a (for-fee) fairly complete distribution of System III under an Ancient Unix license, and was kind enough to send it to me. It includes (under the name c_man) a version that looks to be just about the same as the version with the internal 7th edition. This also includes the "Recent Changes" as an addendum. (Amusingly, the enum example switches a color in its example: "winedark" to "puce". I don't know who did this; it could have been me!). Another interesting complication I turned up in investigating this is that Brian and I seem to have lost the machine-readable source for the actual Appendix A of K&R 1! (The rest of the text is still around). But to turn back to the original question: aside from the "Recent Changes" page, and perhaps some tweaking of the table of supported machines and perhaps a few other fairly minor things, there wasn't any significantly differing local C Reference Manual between 7th ed / K&R 1, up to the ANSI 1989 standard. However, I should try to retrieve what went into 4.3BSD-- I don't have a complete copy of it. Dennis