22 Dec
2022
22 Dec
'22
4:17 a.m.
Good day folks, reassigning this thread once again as I've refocused efforts to the
System V docs I have since I'm working on a *ROFF restoration of that 4.1 manual,
that seems quicker to market for research purposes than scanning and OCR'ing it all,
as I can just compare 3.0 and 5.0 sources with diff and then touch up one or the other to
produce a faithful typesetter source. Not to say I won't eventually be scanning the
physical pages, but that seems like a quicker way to get stuff available for study.
Given that, I'm scanning the System V stuff because there's a much less clear
path to producing typesetter sources there, and truth be told there's a lot more
interesting information in these docs.
So without further ado, here's a second document from that set, the "Transition
Aids" containing five papers: System III to System V transitional changes, 512 byte
to 1K block filesystem transitions, changes to the UNIX ar format, an expository paper on
COFF (Common Object File Format), and finally changes to the C language in this update.
The COFF document is the longest, offers a full exposition, but the rest are just notes on
what has changed between versions:
https://archive.org/details/unix-system-transition-aids-system-v
Additionally, as I kinda just dropped it buried in another thread, I also scanned this one
the past few days, the System Release Description:
https://archive.org/details/unix-system-release-description-system-v/
Where the Transition Aids concerns the most essential information for a System III user to
assess a System V migration, the System Release Description is much more holistic and
contains one very exciting document (for me at least), Appendix I, a list of modification
requests completed in the upgrade, in other words, a development log of every commit
between System III and System V (allegedly). Finally, looks like archive.org opted to OCR
this for me, and the bits I've snipped and checked actually look accurate, so
hopefully as I continue to do this, I continue to get quality OCR from archive.org for
free.
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, December 15th, 2022 at 10:09 PM, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
wrote:
Good evening folks. I'm starting a new thread to
pass along info as I scan materials from the 3B20S manual that I picked up. I figured
it'd be easier to trickle out the bits folks ask me for first and then continue to
scan the rest, that way anyone looking to sink their teeth into something specific can be
sated first.
With that, the first scan (and frankly one of my favorite things about this manual) is
the cover itself: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNIX4.1UsersManualCover.png
Someone had mentioned the idea of making this into a poster and I gotta say, I'd
gladly put one up. The image definitely would need some cleanup for that, I just scanned
it like it came, haven't tried to clean up any of the wear of time yet. Sadly, the
back cover isn't emblazoned with a big Bell logo like the 3.0 and 5.0 (Bell variant)
manuals, so scanning that would be a boring white piece of cardstock.
Anywho, the next round which may come later this evening or sometime this weekend is
going to be various *ROFF-related documents, so documents like troff(1), mm(5), etc.
- Matt G.
