[TUHS] Lions book (not Origin of the name 'strategy'
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jan 10 03:55:54 AEST 2019
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:50 AM Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:20:28 -0500 Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ditto, (actually I have three -- two copies of the new one to show some
> of
> > the younger engineers at work). Having the text is wonderful, but it does
> > seems like a heretical act to be grepping through sources as Tex files;
> > when the original was in roff.
>
> From the preface:
> The co-operation of the ``nroff'' program
> must also be mentioned. Without it,
> these notes could never have been produced in this form. However it has
> yielded some of its more enigmatic
> secrets so reluctantly, that the
> author's gratitude is indeed mixed.
>
> :-)
>
> At any rate use of the CM fonts is a bit jarring.
>
> Everyone who downloaded these sources for grepping has bought
> a paper copy of the Lions book, right?
>
Yea. But the github version doesn't have the 'appendix' that the Amazon
version has with the listing with the line numbers as corresponding to the
book... :(
Warner
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