[TUHS] UNIX Roff Manual

[Tom Lyon]

Jonathan - awesome!
Some Princeton timing: the 360/67 arrived in 1967, but was replaced in the
summer of 1969 by the 360/91.
BWK must've got started on the 7094 that preceded the 67, but since it was
FORTRAN the port wasn't hard.
Now I wonder what Paul Hilfinger did and whether it was still FORTRAN.

I graduated in 1978, ROFF usage was still going strong!

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 09:45:57PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 at 1:51 PM, segaloco <
> segaloco at protonmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just sharing a copy of the Roff Manual that I had forgotten I scanned
> a little while back:
> > >
> > > https://archive.org/details/roff_manual
> > >
> > > This appears to be the UNIX complement to the S/360 version of the
> paper backed up by Doug here:
> https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/roff71/roff71.pdf
> > >
> > > From the best I could tell, this predates both 1973's V3 and the 1971
> S/360 version of the paper, putting it somewhere prior to 1971. For
> instance, it is missing the .ar, .hx, .ig, .ix, .ni, .nx, .ro, .ta, and .tc
> requests found in V3. The .ar and .ro, and .ta requests pop up in the S/360
> paper, the rest are in the V3 manpage (prior manpages don't list the
> request summary).
> > >
> > > If anyone has some authoritative date information I can update the
> archive description accordingly.
> > >
> > > Finally, this very well could be missing the last page, the Page
> offset, Merge patterns, and Envoi sections of Doug's paper are not
> reflected here, although at the very least, the .mg request is not in this
> paper so the Merge patterns section probably wasn't there anyway.
> > >
> > > - Matt G.
> >
> > Just a correction Tom Lyon pointed out, the 1971 BCPL paper is for a
> *GECOS*, not S/360 version, it just suggests sending the print jobs then to
> a S/360 machine, the roff itself is GECOS.
> >
> > - Matt G.
>
> Kernighan's OS/360 roff is described in
> "Manuscript Printing under OS/360: ROFF" and email linked from
> https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
>
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