[TUHS] 1980s troff help?
Tom Lyon via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Sep 17 00:04:12 AEST 2025
Awesome! Many thanks!
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM Russ Cox <rsc at swtch.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the Sun archive, changed the troff to refer to
> fonts C and CB instead of L and LB, and then ran it through
> the Heirloom Doctools <https://github.com/n-t-roff/heirloom-doctools>
> version of troff with no problems.
> I published the results in a Git repo at https://github.com/rsc/nfs.
>
> Specifically see:
> https://github.com/rsc/nfs/blob/main/release.pdf
> https://github.com/rsc/nfs/tree/main/usr/src/sun/doc
>
> The conversion is fairly close to the scans that Jonathan Gray
> posted but not exact. The released text is not always the same
> as the scanned text, and the code for generating the tables of
> contents was not released, so those are missing.
> But overall it is surprisingly close.
>
> Best,
> Russ
>
>
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