26 Oct
2018
26 Oct
'18
7:46 p.m.
The last couple of days I worked on re-setting the V3-V6 manuals.
I reconstructed V5 from the scan as best I could, unfortunately some
pages were missing.
You can find everything I used to do this here,
please read the BUGS section:
https://github.com/aap/unixman
The results can be found here, as HTML and PDF:
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/
Reconstructing V1 and V2 n?roff source and converting the tty 37 output
to ps is something I want to do too, but for now this was exhausting
enough.
Now for the questions that I arose while I was doing this:
Are there scans of the V4 and V6 manual to check my pdfs against?
Where does the V5 manual come from? As explained in the README,
some pages are missing and some pages seem to be earlier than V4.
Is there another V5 manual that one could check against?
Why is lc (the LIL compiler) not in the TOC but has a page?
And most importantly: is the old troff really lost?
I would love to set the manual on the original systems
at some point (and write a CAT -> ps converter, which should be fun).
Doing all this work made me wish we still had earlier versions
of UNIX and its tools around.
Have fun with this!
aap
26 Oct
26 Oct
7:57 p.m.
Beautiful!
From: "Angelo Papenhoff" <aap(a)papnet.eu>
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 3:46:36 PM
Subject: [TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual
The last couple of days I worked on re-setting the V3-V6 manuals.
I reconstructed V5 from the scan as best I could, unfortunately some
pages were missing.
You can find everything I used to do this here,
please read the BUGS section:
https://github.com/aap/unixman
The results can be found here, as HTML and PDF:
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man/
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/
Reconstructing V1 and V2 n?roff source and converting the tty 37 output
to ps is something I want to do too, but for now this was exhausting
enough.
Now for the questions that I arose while I was doing this:
Are there scans of the V4 and V6 manual to check my pdfs against?
Where does the V5 manual come from? As explained in the README,
some pages are missing and some pages seem to be earlier than V4.
Is there another V5 manual that one could check against?
Why is lc (the LIL compiler) not in the TOC but has a page?
And most importantly: is the old troff really lost?
I would love to set the manual on the original systems
at some point (and write a CAT -> ps converter, which should be fun).
Doing all this work made me wish we still had earlier versions
of UNIX and its tools around.
Have fun with this!
aap
8:41 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 3:55 PM Angelo Papenhoff <aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
And most importantly: is the old troff really lost?
The question is how old? I thought we found a pre-ditroff (v6 binary) at
one point, but I don't think we have anything older than that.
I would love to set the manual on the original
systems
at some point (and write a CAT -> ps converter, which should be fun).
I'm pretty sure this already exists. It was part of the Adobe
'transcript'
package back in the day.
8:59 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:46:36PM +0200, Angelo Papenhoff wrote:
The last couple of days I worked on re-setting the
V3-V6 manuals.
Now for the questions that I arose while I was doing this:
Where does the V5 manual come from?
The scan at
https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v5/v5man.pdf
is a scan I did from a photocopy of the 5th Edition manuals that Norman
Wilson posted to me.
Cheers, Warren
9:05 p.m.
On 26/10/18, Clem Cole wrote:
Hm, that sounds commercial. I'd prefer a free tool, besides, it should
be fun to write it.
aap
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 3:55 PM Angelo Papenhoff
<aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
Oh, that sounds good! I thought v7 troff was the first that's been
preserved. Anyone know where to find it?
And most importantly: is the old troff really lost?
The question is how old? I thought we found a pre-ditroff (v6 binary) at
one point, but I don't think we have anything older than that. I would love
to set the manual on the original systems
at some point (and write a CAT -> ps converter, which should be fun).
I'm pretty sure this already exists. It was part of the Adobe
'transcript'
package back in the day. 
9:58 p.m.
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 23:05:02 +0200 Angelo Papenhoff <aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
On 26/10/18, Clem Cole wrote:
pscat
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 3:55 PM Angelo Papenhoff
<aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
Oh, that sounds good! I thought v7 troff was the first that's been
preserved. Anyone know where to find it?
> > I would love to set the manual on the original systems
> > at some point (and write a CAT -> ps converter, which should be fun).
> >
> I'm pretty sure this already exists. It was part of the Adobe
'transcript'
> package back in the day.
And most importantly: is the old troff really lost?
The question is how old? I thought we found a pre-ditroff (v6 binary) at
one point, but I don't think we have anything older than that. Hm, that sounds commercial. I'd prefer a free
tool, besides, it should
be fun to write it.
IIRC there used to be a program called thack that converted
CAT to ps. Supposedly it didn't work too well but may be a
start? Google search reveals some sources. See the one here
for example:
http://cd.textfiles.com/sourcecode/unix_c/postscrp/
No idea about the trustworthyness of this site but the program
compiles on freebsd with a few warnings.
27 Oct
27 Oct
5:15 p.m.
On 27/10/18, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:46:36PM +0200, Angelo
Papenhoff wrote:
Is there another copy of that manual perhaps?
I just noticed the v2 scan is not complete either. It's missing at least
one page of ed(I) and the v1 and v3 manuals are different enough that I
don't know what to reconstruct.
aap
The last couple of days I worked on re-setting
the V3-V6 manuals.
Now for the questions that I arose while I was doing this:
Where does the V5 manual come from?
The scan at
https://www.tuhs.org//Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v5/v5man.pdf
is a scan I did from a photocopy of the 5th Edition manuals that Norman
Wilson posted to me.
28 Oct
28 Oct
10:57 p.m.
V2 is reconstructed now.
So I noticed that V1-V3 all really used roff. Previously I thought that
V2 and V3 used nroff. I fixed my pipeline a bit, also for troff.
All V2-V6 can be found here in new versions:
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v2man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v2man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man.tgz
V2 and V3 are html only but include the intro pages now,
they're also paginated.
V4-V6 are pretty much the same as before, maybe little changes due to
fixes in the pipeline.
Problems:
nroff(I) is missing
some teletype specific things, like overstruck characters, but see
github for a list.
aap
29 Oct
29 Oct
12:15 a.m.
Angelo. I can not thank you enough. This is wonderful work.
Clem
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Oct 28, 2018, at 6:57 PM, Angelo Papenhoff
<aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
V2 is reconstructed now.
So I noticed that V1-V3 all really used roff. Previously I thought that
V2 and V3 used nroff. I fixed my pipeline a bit, also for troff.
All V2-V6 can be found here in new versions:
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v2man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v2man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man.tgz
V2 and V3 are html only but include the intro pages now,
they're also paginated.
V4-V6 are pretty much the same as before, maybe little changes due to
fixes in the pipeline.
Problems:
nroff(I) is missing
some teletype specific things, like overstruck characters, but see
github for a list.
aap
1 Nov
1 Nov
5:21 p.m.
And the V1 manual is done as well. Almost to the day 47 years
after it was first printed.
I'll just link everything again for simplicity:
https://github.com/aap/unixman
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v1man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v1man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v2man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v2man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v3man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v5man.tgz
http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/ http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man.tgz
I fixed some issues with the tty 37 -> html filter (it now turns
half-line feeds into full line feeds. together with some CSS this looks
acceptable). Some typos in V2 were also fixed.
The nroff output now prints the header once, otherwise no pagination.
I will leave pagination for when I can convert nroff output to pdf.
This means all nroff output has changed from the previous version.
This has been quite an exhausting task, but fortunately it has also
been quite educational. I now feel like some sort of UNIX scholar.
I would really appreciate it if people could proof read some of this.
aap
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