[TUHS] Trying to date "A Supplemental Document For Awk"

[Clem Cole]

Download the file and make sure you save it in "UNIX" format, not DOS (
*i.e.* newline delimited not the nasty <CR><LF> cruft) -- (if you are not
sure how to do that running the dos2unix(1) command will assure it's was
not unix format when you are done).

% file awkdoc
awkdoc: troff or preprocessor input text, ASCII text
% man groff

We'll leave it to you to figure out which switches for troff/groff and
macro package (hint: try the head(1) command to peak at the first few lines
--  there are three likely choices, but it's pretty obvious since the same
one as most V7 documents).

FWIW: If you got a copy of Kernighan and Pike's - "The Unix Programming
Environment"  [ISBN 0-13-937699-2] which is available at most retailers.
You can read Chapter 9 for this question. Although, given so many of the
questions you seem to like to ask here, please consider doing all the
exercises in the entire book.
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM KenUnix <ken.unix.guy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> It's been too long. What would I use to compile this man page source?
>
> I do remember some option switches are required. Yes?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:49 PM Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:26:02AM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>> > Attached is "A Supplemental Document For Awk". This circulated on
>> > USENET in the 80s.  My copy is dated January 18, 1989, but I'm sure
>> > it's older than that.
>>
>> In the utzoo Usenet archive, there are two versions of this document and
>> a few mentions of it...
>>
>> John Pierce posted to comp.unix.questions on 1989-04-02, saying he'd
>> written it "four or five years ago".
>>
>> Stu Heiss, in comp.unix.questions on 1989-03-06, said it was "posted to
>> net.sources 18 Jun 86 with message-id 238 at sdchema.sdchem.uucp".
>> Unfortunately this isn't in the utzoo archive or the net.sources.mbox
>> in archive.org's Usenet Historical Collection.
>>
>> A copy identical to yours was posted by Jim Harkins to
>> comp.unix.questions on 1990-03-29.
>>
>> There's a later version, fixing a typo and some formatting and adding a
>> mention of \f and \b in printf, which was posted by Brian Kantor to
>> comp.doc on 1987-10-11 -- I've attached this. The same file (with two
>> .bps commented out) was reposted in comp.unix.questions on 1989-11-16 by
>> Francois-Michel Lang.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>
>>
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> JOB TERMINATED -->> Okey Dokey, OK Boss
>
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