[TUHS] Mix Utah V4 and the V4 Man Pages

[Jonathan Gray via TUHS]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 07:52:22AM +1000, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
> On 1/29/26 9:57 PM, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
> > Hi all, sorry for the delay but I've just added V4 to the Unix Archive here:
> > 
> > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Utah_v4/
> >
> > And it's also now in the Unix Tree at
> > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4
> 
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 06:08:30PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> > Regarding the V4 manpage sources, would it be appropriate to merge those
> > with this entry in the tree at /usr/man?  At the very least the blurb on
> > the root directory should then probably mention the providence of the
> > two pieces and their being amalgamated for tree reasons.
> 
> I wasn't sure if I should mix the V4 manuals from
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v4/
> with the Utah tape as there is no nroff on the Utah tape but
> the man pages are written in nroff.
> 
> But, yes, I can add some blurb that explains the amalgamation.
> 
> So, a related question, does anybody know why nroff was _not_ on the
> Utah V4 tape, especially as it was a late snapshot of V4?

Documented as not being on the tape:

"The following programs out of the programmer's manual are not
provided: catsim(I), man(I), nroff(I), opr(I), plot(I), speak(I),
troff(I), tss(I), gerts(III), vt(III), azel(VI), m6(VI),
maze(VI), ov(VI), sky(VI), spline(VI), tmg(VI), yacc(VI),
dpd(VII), tmheader(VII), vs(VII), 20boot(VIII) and update(VIII).

The source of the following programs from the manual is not
provided: cref(I), proof(I), bj(VI), chess(VI), cubic(VI),
moo(VI), ttt(VI) and wump(VI)."

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/Gao_Analysis/v4_dist/setup.pdf

Though the Utah tape has a yacc binary and update.