[TUHS] revision history of troff -me macro set?

Henry Bent henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 06:08:21 AEST 2020


On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 16:04, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> There should be copies in 4BSD releases.
>
> But it is also in the SCCS files as share/me/SCCS/s.tmac.orig_me and that
> has what looks like a complete history.
>
> Warner
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, 1:46 PM <saint.snit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a repository of historical versions of Eric Allman's -me macro
>> set for troff?
>>
>> (For some context: the macro set has been forked to operate with two
>> modern troff implementations: GNU groff and Heirloom troff.  According
>> to the header blocks of the respective files, groff's -me macros are
>> forked from version 2.31 of Allman's, and Heirloom's from version 2.14.
>> For help in debugging -me problems in these troff implementations,
>> I'm trying to locate at least these versions of the -me package as they
>> existed before forking.  I posted this query on the troff email list,
>> but no one there knew the answer, and one person suggested I ask here.)
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>>
>
Here's a link:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/share/me/tmac.orig_me?view=log

-Henry
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