[TUHS] DWB troff and man(7) history question

Warren Toomey via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Sep 27 08:14:07 AEST 2025


All, this message from G. Branden Robinson who is having trouble getting
it through to the list.

----- Forwarded message from "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson at gmail.com> -----

Does anyone know if DWB 2.0 (~1984) supported the `lq` and `rq` strings
in its man(7) package?

In DWB 3.3 (1993), they are easily found.

https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3/blob/562bb8615116f46077ca03e8561323cc7a89673e/macros/man/an.sr#L30

But that's after Unix System V (1988), which finally made the decision
to adopt these string definitions from 4BSD (1980).

Regards,
Branden

----- End forwarded message -----


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