[TUHS] UNIX Roff Manual

[Jonathan Gray]

"It is a lousy day in Princeton" changes to
"It is a nice day in Princeton" in:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0751318.pdf
https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0751318/mode/2up
ROFF - A MANUSCRIPT PRINTING PROGRAM: USER’S MANUAL
Clifford E. Rhoades, Jr.
November 1972

"This particular version of ROFF is a modified form of an IBM OS/360
program written by Dr. Peter Crean as revised to incorporate equation
writing by Dr. Stephen Fulling at Princeton."

Includes a FORTRAN listing at the end.

Kernighan is not credited but the manual is clearly derived from his.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 06:28:49PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> 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
> >