New subject: Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual

27 Oct 2018

[this was meant to go over the list, Warren quoted it, but it
destroyed the formatting somewhat]

On 27/10/18, Warren Toomey wrote:
...
  On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:46:36PM +0200, Angelo
Papenhoff wrote:
  And most importantly: is the old troff really
lost?  
 Angelo, I just trawled through the Unix Archive. Below is a list
 of tarballs with roff stuff in them. Hope this helps. Sorry that
 they are not in date order.
 Cheers, Warren 
Unfortunately that does not include the old troff written in PDP-11
assembly.
The v6 tape and file system contain traces of it in the directory
/usr/source/s7, so we at least know (some of) the file names:

│002655f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |                |
│00265600 6d 01 72 6f 66 66 33 2e-73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |m?roff3.s       |
│00265610 6c 01 72 6f 66 66 34 2e-73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |l?roff4.s       |
│00265620 6b 01 72 6f 66 66 35 2e-73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |k?roff5.s       |
│00265630 6a 01 72 6f 66 66 37 2e-73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |j?roff7.s       |
│00265640 69 01 72 6f 66 66 38 2e-73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |i?roff8.s       |
│00265650 00 00 73 75 66 72 63 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  sufrc         |
│00265660 67 01 73 75 66 74 61 62-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |g?suftab.s      |
│00265670 00 00 74 63 61 74 73 69-6d 2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 |  tcatsim.s     |
│00265680 00 00 74 72 63 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  trc           |
│00265690 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 31-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff1.s      |
│002656a0 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 32-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff2.s      |
│002656b0 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 33-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff3.s      |
│002656c0 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 34-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff4.s      |
│002656d0 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 35-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff5.s      |
│002656e0 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 36-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff6.s      |
│002656f0 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 36-61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff6a       |
│00265700 00 00 74 72 6f 66 66 38-2e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  troff8.s      |
│00265710 00 00 78 78 78 78 78 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |  xxxxx         |
│00265720 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |                |

Now it could be that v7 troff is perfectly capable of generating the
manual just like older troff would have, I just haven't dived more
deeply into it all yet. I was more concerned about reconstructing the
actual content rather than the exact looks for now, but it's still
something i want to get right eventually.

This didn't go through the list but I'll reply here:

On 26/10/18, Ken Thompson wrote:
...
  nice job. 
Thanks, You've always been an inspiration to me!

aap

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