> Some of the symbols in this file are obviously copyright to AT+T
No worry. The US Supreme Court has declared (in Google LLC v Oracle)
that APIs can be freely copied. The fact that some of your defines may
look like a paraphrase of AT&T almost certainly reflects the
exculpatory fact that most reasonable people would likely implement
the API that way regardless of whether they had seen AT&T's source.
Doug
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>1. "recently uncovered" Bell Labs Unix bibliography (Steve Izma)
>2. EQNCHAR ... -wig for Maths Gurus (Damian McGuckin)
>3. [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar (G. Branden Robinson)
>4. EQNCHAR on IBM AIX and ORACLE Solaris (Damian McGuckin)
>5. Re: [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar (Damian McGuckin)
>6. Re: [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar (Damian McGuckin)
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> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 19:03:44 -0400
> From: Steve Izma
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> Subject: "recently uncovered" Bell Labs Unix bibliography
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> Some of you might be interested in a note from today's Tex Users
> Group news:
>
> Nelson Beebe reports a recently uncovered large Bell Labs
> bibliography about Unix spanning 1972 to 1980. It is
> available at https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/unix.bib.
> There is a SQLite3 version of the bibliography at
> https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/unix.db. See
> https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/talks/#2009 for the
> documentation of this format.
>
> There are numerous references to nroff and troff in it.
>
> Part of my interest in this comes from just having finished
> Brian Kernighan's "Unix: A History and a Memoir", which
> was thoroughly enjoyable to read. (Lots of good stories about
> Doug McIlroy in it, as well.)
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> -- Steve
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> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 10:51:06 +1000 (AEST)
> From: Damian McGuckin
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> Subject: EQNCHAR ... -wig for Maths Gurus
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> .. and I fall short of that.
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> As I read this symbol, it is a minus sign with a wiggle or tilde on top.
>
> The only copy of eqnchar that I have says this is the \(~= sign which
> is the groff \[~=] which is two tilde's, one on top of the other.
>
> I thought that -wig was supposed to be a minus sign with a tilde on top,
> what groff calls \[|=].
>
> Similarly, an equals sign with a tilde on top is what groff calls \[=~].
> We could call it =wig.
>
> Thanks - Damian
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 19:53:58 -0500
> From: "G. Branden Robinson"
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> Subject: [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar
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> Forwarding Doug's response from the TUHS list to the groff list.
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> - Forwarded message from Douglas McIlroy
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> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:51:15 -0400
> From: Douglas McIlroy
> To: TUHS main list
> Subject: [TUHS] Re: symbols in eqnchar
>
> > What is the name of the mathematic symbols
>
> Here are some readings, not exactly names
>
> incl (used with partial orderings) is included in, or is less than
> |> is not greater than
> |< is not less than
> >wig
> wigis approximately, or asymptotically approaches
> ~wig is approximately
>
> Doug
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