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- Dennis Ritchie has unearthed the on-line manuals for 4th Edition UNIX,
- and they are in v4mans.tar.gz. His email says:
-
- It turns out that the source ?roff for the 3rd and 4th edition
- manuals exists online here. These are versions from bowell, which
- Norman Wilson will remember, and are all owned (according to the
- bowell passwd file) by andrew (Hume). The Plan 9 file date marks
- (inherited, probably faithfully, from bowell, and most probably
- faithfully from whatever tape Andrew loaded) are in the range around
- Feb 1973 for the 3rd edition, and Nov 1973 for the 4th. The dates
- inside the files themselves are consistent with this.
-
- This was clearly a feverish period. The manual pages are only a
- few months apart, but besides all the system changes, the manual
- was redone from nroff to troff, which appeared in the 4th and not
- the 3rd. Ah, the energy of youth.
-