<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font style="" color="#0000ff" face="arial, sans-serif">Download the file and make sure you save it in "UNIX" format, not DOS (<i>i.e.</i> newline delimited not the nasty <CR><LF> cruft) -- (if you are not sure how to do that running the dos2unix(1) command will assure it's was not unix format when you are done).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#38761d" style="" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#38761d" style="" face="monospace">% file awkdoc<br>awkdoc: troff or preprocessor input text, ASCII text<br></font><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:monospace">% man groff</span><font color="#38761d" style="" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">We'll leave it to you to figure out which switches for troff/groff and macro package (hint: try the head(1) command to peak at the first few lines -- </font>there are three likely choices, but <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">it's pretty obvious </span>since the<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> same one as most V7 documents).</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">FWIW: If you got a copy of Kernighan and Pike's - "The Unix Programming Environment" [</span>ISBN 0-13-937699-2] which is available at most retailers. You can read Chapter 9 for this question. Although, given so many of the questions you seem to like to ask here, please consider doing all the exercises in the entire book.</font></div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aY2xlbWNAY2NjLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=39a87173-dd0b-464a-80fc-a436cada67d3"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM KenUnix <<a href="mailto:ken.unix.guy@gmail.com">ken.unix.guy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Guys,</div><div><br></div><div>It's been too long. What would I use to compile this man page source?</div><div><br></div><div>I do remember some option switches are required. Yes?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:49 PM Adam Sampson <<a href="mailto:ats@offog.org" target="_blank">ats@offog.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:26:02AM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:<br>
> Attached is "A Supplemental Document For Awk". This circulated on<br>
> USENET in the 80s. My copy is dated January 18, 1989, but I'm sure<br>
> it's older than that.<br>
<br>
In the utzoo Usenet archive, there are two versions of this document and<br>
a few mentions of it...<br>
<br>
John Pierce posted to comp.unix.questions on 1989-04-02, saying he'd<br>
written it "four or five years ago".<br>
<br>
Stu Heiss, in comp.unix.questions on 1989-03-06, said it was "posted to<br>
net.sources 18 Jun 86 with message-id 238@sdchema.sdchem.uucp".<br>
Unfortunately this isn't in the utzoo archive or the net.sources.mbox<br>
in <a href="http://archive.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">archive.org</a>'s Usenet Historical Collection.<br>
<br>
A copy identical to yours was posted by Jim Harkins to<br>
comp.unix.questions on 1990-03-29.<br>
<br>
There's a later version, fixing a typo and some formatting and adding a<br>
mention of \f and \b in printf, which was posted by Brian Kantor to<br>
comp.doc on 1987-10-11 -- I've attached this. The same file (with two<br>
.bps commented out) was reposted in comp.unix.questions on 1989-11-16 by<br>
Francois-Michel Lang.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Adam Sampson <<a href="mailto:ats@offog.org" target="_blank">ats@offog.org</a>> <<a href="http://offog.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://offog.org/</a>><br>
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