<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">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>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>End of line</div><div>JOB TERMINATED -->> Okey Dokey, OK Boss<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>