Re: [TUHS] Re: Old troff files (1988-2007)

2024-10-05 Thread Clem Cole
Branden. Thank you. FWIW I have generally found heirloom to be good enough for rendering most old troff on modern systems such that I can reasonably read the text. But I suspect your detail is useful to know in some cases. As they say YMMR. That said I often use the groff tools kits since it

Re: [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff

2024-01-17 Thread Clem Cole
Larry wrote it for admin help of his 4.1 BSD vaxen at NASA. (Which was PCC based compiler K&R1 syntax). I do not remember if any one tried to get it running on the 11 because of address space issues. As Brad says you can check all usenet files. Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usua

Re: [TUHS] Re: [TUHS, groff] 1981 edition of AT&T Nroff/Troff User's Manual

2022-06-06 Thread Clem Cole
Well thank you both!!! ᐧ On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 10:01 AM wrote: > Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > > > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/Unix_4.0/Volume_1/C.1.2_NROFF_TROFF_Users_Manual.pdf > > > > Since PDF didn't exist in 1981, the document is either a scan or the > > result of a