Subject: manuals

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 03:32:27 -0500

It turns out that the source ?roff for the 3rd and 4th
edition manuals exists online here.  These are
versions from bowell, which Norman 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.