[TUHS] Demise of TeX and groff (was: roff(7))

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Thu Jan 13 01:56:15 AEST 2022


Yes -- thank you.  Dyslexia-r-me

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:49 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
> > Beyond base duplication, numerous companies published parts of them and
> in
> > particular parts if not all of the roff manual.  For instance, a firm in
> > Seattle called CSSC published a number of reference guides and use guides
> > based on them
>
> You mean "SSC" - Specialized Systems Consultants. I did work for them
> in the 90s and they started Linux Journal, for which I wrote a few articles
> early on.  The main guy there, Phil Hughes, was an interesting person.
> After getting rich from LJ he dropped out and moved to Central or South
> America.
>
> CSSC is the GNU project's reimplimentation of SCCS, to which, I believe,
> Larry contributed.
>
> Arnold
>
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