Hi, > On 12 Sep 2017, at 22:20, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > -------- > In message <alpine.bsf.2.21.1709121210140.54...@orthanc.ca>, Lyndon Nerenberg > writes: >>> That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL >>> thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR >>> and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff. >> >> Not quite. They (AT&T) sold the rights to sell typeset manuals to some >> publishing house (I forget which), at which point they stopped shipping >> the *roff source for the manpages on the source tapes. Instead, you got >> pre-formatted "cat" pages on the source tape. I think this happened >> starting with SVR3.
That is correct. We wrote some excruciatingly ugly scripts that mostly reconstructed the *roff source from the formatted pages. > I'm pretty sure that SVR1 had catman and roff was an extra and somewhat > pricey software package. That is also correct: by SVR5 that had become the Documenter’s Workbench (DWB). > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Bob Bishop r...@gid.co.uk _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
