If that fails, go into your v6 file system and look in /usr/lib/tmac and find the old macros.
Bring them back your mac and you can do:  groff -Tps XXXoldmacrosXXX iolib> iolib.ps

Clem

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
Looks like -ms macros - which make sense because Mike Lesk wrote them.

groff -Tps -ms iolib > iolib.ps
ps2pdf iolib



On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:


On 1/23/16 2:00 PM, Clem Cole wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Missing Documents for use with the Unix Time-Sharing System, Sixth Edition
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>


below....

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
All,

The Unix Sixth edition programmer's manual and other documents for use with Unix time-sharing system are available online, in html and postscript form from Wolfgang Helbig's site:

http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/doc/index.html

There are papers some missing from the "Documents for use with the Unix Time-Sharing System":
​ Hmm - these should be with the v6 distribution   - some of them are coming with later editions... and except for updates to said system will be go'nuf

That said you are asking about the versions from v6.   I do not seem to have hardcopies easy to find.   I'll keep looking there is some stuff in my attic.
​


 
RATFOR - A Preprocessor for Rational Fortran
NROFF User's Manual
A Manual for Tmg Compiler-writing Language
​ This is the doc that you might not find in other places, as I think tmg stopped being distributed at some point.   Doug as one of the authors I believe may know the story.   ​


 
On the Security of UNIX
The M6 Macro Processor
​I think you mean m4 not m6​

 
A System for Typesetting Mathematics
DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator
BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language
The Portable C Library (on UNIX)
UNIX Summary

Some of these are more interesting to me than others, but I tend towards shiny objects, so there is no telling when they will be of critical interest in the future. I have done quite a bit of searching for the NROFF document and the portable C library document and while I have found related works, I haven't come across the originals for sixth edition. Do any of y'all know where any or all of these documents are archived in their original/reproduced form?

Thanks for the reply. The nroff source for a lot of these is indeed on the distribution tape. So... my followup question is how can I convert it to pdf or ps?

In v6:
# cd /usr/doc/iolib
# nroff iolib
The Portable C Library (on UNIX) * M. E. Lesk 1. INTRODUCTION The
C langlage [1] now exists on three operating systems.  * This do-
clment is an abbreviated form of ``The Portable C  Library'',  by
M.  E.  Lesk, describing only the UNIX section of the library.  A
...
pected  to make any sense of it on retlrn.  The first arglment is
...

Mangled. But when I took the source and copied it onto my mac and did this:
groff -t iolib
ps2pdf iolib.ps
open iolib.pdf

The result was ok and is attached, but the format is ugly. Here is the first bit of source. Is it roff/nroff? and is my approach to conversion reasonable?

.ds s \\s8
.ds S \\s0
.ds * \v'.2m'*\v'-.2m'
.tr ~.
.ds . \s14~\s0
.tr _\(ul
.de sn
.sp
.ft I
.ne 2
..
.de sN
.sp .5
.ft R
..
.TL
The Portable C Library (on \s-2UNIX\s0) *
.AU
M. E. Lesk
.AI
.MH
.SH
1. INTRODUCTION
.PP
The C language [1] now exists on three operating systems.
.FS
* This document is an abbreviated form of
``The Portable C Library'', by M. E. Lesk, describing only
the UNIX section of the library.
.FE
A set of library routines common to

Thanks,

Will