New subject: C reference manual, another one

17 Oct 2002

If anyone has one of the SCO Ancient Unix licenses and a copy of the
archive that went with it, then they legally have the source to System
III.  If such a person extracts sys3.tar.gz and looks in usr/src/man/docs
they'll find a file named `c_man' with the actual manual in it.  I quote:

	...
	.SH "1.  INTRODUCTION"
	.PP
	This manual
	.FS
	.ps +1
	\(dg This manual is reprinted, with minor changes, from
	.I "The C Programming Language"
	by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie,
	Prentice Hall, Inc., 1978.
	.ps
	.FE
	describes the C language
	...

What the legalities are of redistributing this, and/or generating
postscript from it, are, I don't know.  Similar questions apply
to scanning in the ref man from a copy of K&R-I, which is now
out of print. (I wish Caldera had included System III in their
releasing of Ancient Unix. Sigh.)

I hope this helps, some.

Arnold

P.S. Completely unrelated, but I find it really cool how much of
the System III doc refers to C and Unix on the System/370...

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  Subject: Re: [TUHS] C reference manual
 From: norman(a)nose.cs.utoronto.ca (Norman Wilson)
 To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:13:22 -0400

 To forestall those who haven't looked: the good news is that
 the papers from Volume 2 of the manual were included in /usr/doc
 on the V7 tape; the bad news is that the C Reference Manual was
 omitted.  Here is /usr/doc/cman in its entirety:

   Sorry, but for copyright reasons, the source
   for the C Reference Manual is not distributed.

 Presumably the problem was that the Reference Manual was published
 as part of the a real book in 1978.

 I forget just what Tony was after in the first place, but maybe
 some of the stuff on Dennis Ritchie's home page will help:
 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html
 In particular the Sixth Edtion version of the C Reference Manual
 is there.

 Norman Wilson
 Toronto ON 