[TUHS] Mix Utah V4 and the V4 Man Pages
Angelo Papenhoff via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun Feb 1 21:09:00 AEST 2026
That would be the Dennis_V4 manual source which i've put onto a tape so
you can load it on V4 and have a usable manual (i included nroff from v6
in my "distro" too), see my expanded guide at http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/README
aap
> Actually, what is the "man.tap" available here?
>
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Utah_v4/
>
> I'm not somewhere I can dig around more than with od, certainly looks
> like there are manpage sources in there.
>
> From the looks of it, nroff was missing from other, earlier versions
> as well. For instance, the s1/s2 bits tapes don't appear to have nroff
> present despite it being in the V2 manual. Is it known whether nroff
> was primarily developed on the "trunk" MH PDP-11 or if it might have
> lived elsewhere, leading to it not getting swept along for the tapes cut
> for external users?
>
> - Matt G.
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