[TUHS] Original print of V7 manual?

[Jonathan Gray]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:22:36PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Where did you discover the identity and date of the 1998 retypeset of
> the V7 Volume 2 manual?  I have wondered about this for years.  In part
> to complain, because while it is a _fairly_ faithful reproduction of the
> original, it is not perfect, and this has led to some arguments on the
> groff mailing list with people who impute excessive authority to it.
> 
> (I guess they couldn't see the little hollow gray boxes where the
> PostScript renderer had no defined character, if we're talking about the
> same document.)

Brian Walden's notes on creating them:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080217213120/http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/bswv7.html
http://web.cuzuco.com/~cuzuco/v7/

CreationDate in the pdfs is 1998