[TUHS] Brian Kernighan and very early *roff history
Will Senn
will.senn at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 23:55:25 AEST 2022
Hi AAP,
Dunno if this is what you're after, but Dennis's v5 tape has roff
assembly sources in s7
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v5/v5root.tar.gz:
Will
On 1/14/22 7:35 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi aap,
>
>> v6 has assembler sources for nroff and deleted directory entries of
>> troff (and others):
>>
>> 00064e00: 6d01 726f 6666 332e 7300 0000 0000 0000 m.roff3.s.......
>> 00064e10: 6c01 726f 6666 342e 7300 0000 0000 0000 l.roff4.s.......
>> 00064e20: 6b01 726f 6666 352e 7300 0000 0000 0000 k.roff5.s.......
>> 00064e30: 6a01 726f 6666 372e 7300 0000 0000 0000 j.roff7.s.......
>> 00064e40: 6901 726f 6666 382e 7300 0000 0000 0000 i.roff8.s.......
>> 00064e50: 0000 7375 6672 6300 0000 0000 0000 0000 ..sufrc.........
>> 00064e60: 6701 7375 6674 6162 2e73 0000 0000 0000 g.suftab.s......
>> 00064e70: 0000 7463 6174 7369 6d2e 7300 0000 0000 ..tcatsim.s.....
>> 00064e80: 0000 7472 6300 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ..trc...........
>> 00064e90: 0000 7472 6f66 6631 2e73 0000 0000 0000 ..troff1.s......
> Are inodes 0x0168, etc., re-used elsewhere? If so, it would be
> interesting to where.
>
> Or is there a chance they still hold useful information about blocks
> which may contain troff content?
>
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