[TUHS] 1980s troff help?

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

I was able to get the plan9port troff going without too much
trouble.  It let me format a book published in 1981 without
too much trouble.  I can send you the notes I made.

I'm not too soure about fonts 6 and 7 though.

Let me know (off list) if you want more info.

Arnold

Tom Lyon via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Anyone have a working pic|tbl|eqn|troff setup?  In preparation for next
> week's NFS celebration, it'd be great to get some of the original specs
> turned into PDFs.
>
> The TUHS archive has the NFS kernel source release for non-Sun
> developers/licensees at https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Sun/
>
> Under usr/src/sun/doc are all the protocol specifications - nfs, rpc, xdr,
> and yp.   But they're all troff source.  The README says:
>
> To troff the files in this directory, use:
>
> pic | tbl | eqn | troff -ms sunhead.ms -
>
> This assumes that troff is a front end that sets up ditroff. sunhead.ms
> requires more font positions than the standard troff allows. Font position 7
> is mapped to a constant width font and font position 6 is mapped to a bold
> constant width font. If you don't have these, you'll have to play with the
> mappings.
>
> The file sunhead.ms is a header file containing some definitions.
>
>
> It'd be great if these specs could be turned into pdfs.
> I was never any good with troff.
>
> There's a site being built with tons of NFS docs; these would be a great
> addition.
>
> Thanks for any help!