[TUHS] General Document Scans Thread (Was 3B20 Manual Scans)

[segaloco via TUHS]

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.

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On Thursday, December 15th, 2022 at 10:09 PM, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> - Matt G.