[TUHS] 1980s troff help?

[Jonathan Gray via TUHS]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 07:08:23PM -0700, Tom Lyon via TUHS 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!

Output can be compared to scans.

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Networking on the Sun Workstation

Part Number: 800-1177-01
Revision: A of 15 April 1985
For: Sun System Release 2.0

https://archive.org/details/Sun_800-1177-01_SunOS_2.0_Networking_on_the_Sun_Workstation
https://archive.org/details/sun-networking

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Networking on the Sun Workstation

800-1325-03
Revision: B of 17 February 1986

bitsavers pdf/sun/sunos/3.0/
800-1324-03B_Networking_on_the_Sun_Workstation_198602.pdf