you will
find a PDF scan on the v5 manuals. Many thanks to Norman Wilson who sent me a photocopy
set.
Cheers, Warren
On 8 February 2015 04:53:27 AEST, jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
So, I have a chance to buy a copy of a Version 5
manual, but it will be
a
lot. I looked, and the Version 5 manual doesn't appear to be online. So
while
normally at the price this is at, I would pass, it might be worth it
for me
to buy it, and scan it to make it available.
But, I looked in the "FAQ on the Unix Archive and Unix on the PDP-11",
and it
says:
5th Edition has its on-line manual pages missing. ... Fortunately, we
do
have paper copies of all the research editions of UNIX from 1st to 7th
Edition, and these will be scanned in and OCR'd.
Several questions: First, when it says "we do have paper copies of all
the
research editions of UNIX", I assume it means 'we do have paper copies
of
_the manuals for_ all the research editions of UNIX', not 'we do have
paper
copies of _the source code for_ all the research editions of UNIX'?
Second, if it is 'manuals', did the scan/OCR thing ever happen, or is
it
likely to anytime in the moderate future (next couple of years)?
Third, would a scanned (which I guess we could OCR) version of this
manual be
of much use (it would not, after all, be the NROFF source, although
probably
a lot of the commands will be identical to the V6 ones, for which we do
have
the NROFF)?
Advice, please? Thanks!
Noel
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