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Summary: .At 32v should say "[Version 7] AT&T UNIX/32V", not
"Version 32V AT&T UNIX"
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Wed 01 Sep 2021 04:53:52 PM UTC
Category: Macro - mdoc
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Currently:
$ printf '.At v7\n.br\n.At 32v' | nroff -mdoc | grep -v '^$'
Version 7 AT&T UNIX
Version 32V AT&T UNIX
But I believe the following:
$ printf '.At v7\n.br\n.At 32v' | nroff -mdoc | grep -v '^$'
Version 7 AT&T UNIX
AT&T UNIX/32V
Or this should hold:
$ printf '.At v7\n.br\n.At 32v' | nroff -mdoc | grep -v '^$'
Version 7 AT&T UNIX
Version 7 AT&T UNIX/32V
32V is a direct port of V7 to the VAX with non-formative new utilities, if
any(?); bundling it in with V[1234567] is, at its best, disingenuous, and, at
worst, just plainly wrong.
Its manual designation is unanimously Version 1 of UNIX/32V; cf.
/usr/man/man0/title:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
Holmdel, New Jersey
UNIX/32V PROGRAMMER’S MANUAL
Version 1.0
February, 1979
/usr/man/man0/title] (TM in superscript):
‐‐
UNIXTM/32V TIME‐SHARING SYSTEM:
UNIX PROGRAMMER’S MANUAL
Version 1.0, Volume 1
February, 1979
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
Holmdel, New Jersey
The basic .At contract is "AT&T UNIX", hence I think either "AT&T UNIX/32V",
at the minimum, or "Version 7 AT&T UNIX/32V", following the System/Platform
convention and keeping the front a consonant, is best.
32V can be autopsied at
http://ftp.okass.net/pub/mirror/minnie.tuhs.org/Distributions/USDL/32V/32v_usr.tar.gz
Previously discussed on mandoc-tech@
<https://inbox.vuxu.org/mandoc-tech/20210819151301.gb56...@athene.usta.de/T/>,
Ingo has agreed to follow through with this in mandoc, I hope to push this
through NetBSD as well.
Previously seen on Debian #991633 <https://bugs.debian.org/991633>.
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