[TUHS] Fwd: dmr DECtape Analysis, part N

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2025-01-01T07:46:28+1000, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
> All, Yufeng Gao has done more amazing work at extracting binaries,
> source code and text documents from the DECtapes that Dennis Ritchie
> provided for the Unix Archive:
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/
> 
> His latest e-mail is below. I've temporarily placed his attachments
> here: https://minnie.tuhs.org/wktcloud/index.php/s/aWkck2Ljay6c5sB
> 
> He needs some help with formatting old *roff documents. If someone
> could offer him help, that would be great. His e-mail address is
> yufeng.gao AT uq.edu.au
[...]
>    There are other overwritten files on the tapes, and I will address
>    them later. There are quite a few patents, papers, and memos in
>    *roff format, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with them. Among
>    those, I have picked out some V4 distribution documents and
>    attached them as a ZIP folder :-). If you know of ways to generate
>    PDFs from these ancient *roff files accurately, please lend a hand
>    - I'm struggling to get accurate results from groff.

Hi Yufeng,

I maintain groff.  How can I be of assistance?

Is there an exhibit of a troublesome document you'd like me to inspect?
(It's possible given the era that you have some roff(1) documents rather
than nroff(1) or troff(1) ones.)

Regards,
Branden
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