Re: First edition Unix manuals - TUHS

9 May 1998

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  On Fri, 8 May 1998, Robert D. Keys wrote:
   On Thu, 
7 May 1998 at  9:05:02 -0400, Robert D. Keys wrote:
  I emailed him about the possibility of recreating
the roff sources,
 an I will probably wind up doing that.  Then we will have a working
 set of sources for clean copy.  
 Great idea.  Keep us posted.

 Greg  
 I have the intro and first few manpages of section 1 done so far.
 Maybe a week or so and then if someone will proof them.  I will
 port them in original roff source, and then make a troff set.
 Dennis was wanting someone to tackle an html version.  Alas, my
 html is not so good.
   It shouldn't be that hard to make HTML directly from the roff source (I
 could probably be persuaded to do something like this, given the roff
 source first of course!) 
Or use programs written already to do that, like RosettaMan (at least
I still call it that, the author changed its name). Here's a blurb
from its announcement.

:: PolyglotMan (nee RosettaMan) is a filter for UNIX manual pages.  It
:: takes as input man pages for a variety of UNIX flavors and produces as
:: output a variety of file formats.  Currently PolyglotMan accepts man
:: pages from the following flavors of UNIX: Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, AT&T
:: System V, SunOS, Sun Solaris, OSF/1, DEC Ultrix, SGI IRIX, Linux, SCO,
:: FreeBSD; and produces output for the following formats: printable
:: ASCII only (stripping page headers and footers), section and
:: subsection headers only, TkMan, [tn]roff, RTF, SGML (soon--I finally
:: found a DTD), HTML, MIME, LaTeX, LaTeX 2e, Perl 5's pod.  Previously
:: <I>PolyglotMan</I> required pages to be formatted by nroff prior to
:: its processing; with version 3.0, it prefers [tn]roff source and
:: usually can produce results that are better yet.
:: 
:: PolyglotMan improves upon other man page filters in several ways: (1) its
:: analysis recognizes the structural pieces of man pages, enabling high
:: quality output, (2) its modular structure permits easy augmentation of
:: output formats, (3) it accepts man pages formatted with the variant
:: macros of many different flavors of UNIX, and (4) it doesn't require
:: modification of or cooperation with any other program.

:: The home location for PolyglotMan is ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:
:: /ucb/people/phelps/tcltk/rman.tar.Z (this is a softlink to the latest,
:: numbered version).  If you discover a bug and you obtained PolyglotMan
:: at some other site, first grab it from this one to see if the problem
:: has been fixed.

This is only for man pages, but probably could take the papers in ms
format and give a rough translation, or hack up polyglotman some to do
ms as well..

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I'd like to write a visible front end for Bob's emulator, but I'm not 
sure how to go about doing it.   What I'd like is another window that 
shows the state of the emulator--PC, SP, MMR etc.--in real time.

Any suggestions/ideas?

TIA

Ed

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