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Unix Tenth Edition Manual
This is a start at making available some of the material
from the Tenth Edition Research Unix manual.
It was the final Unix manual prepared by us,
published in 1990 by Saunders College Publishing,
in two volumes:
Unix Research System: Programmer's Manual (Volume 1): ISBN 0-03-047532-5
Unix Research System: Papers (Volume 2): ISBN 0-03-047529-5
Although the work has many authors, the primary editors, collators,
and preparers of the edition were Andrew Hume and Doug
McIlroy. They did the work
to put the publication together, and their names are with justification
signed below the Preface.
Preserved records of the publication are
in generally good shape, including quantities of printable
PostScript, some distilled into PDF here.
The papers here reproduced will generally bear the page numbers
as they appeared in the books.
This page will never attempt to reproduce the entire two volumes, but
does sample some of its material. Many of the medium-size tool
programs (and their documentation) survived into
the Plan 9 system, and are described in
its programmer's manual and its own collection of papers.
Of course some form part of a standard Unix
toolset, and are readily available in some form, either on commercial
Unix systems, or via independent implementations of their ideas
distributed as open-source software.
Others of these programs are no longer used, and their documentation will be curated
mainly as historical interest dictates.
Priority will be given to papers about programs that
are available in Plan 9, but are described only in summary
in its manual pages.
The Tenth Edition Research Unix System did boast this published manual,
but the software itself was never collected in a single place as a distribution.
It was used in the Computing Sciences research group at Bell Labs as a resource
through the last of our Vax machines, but not ported en masse to
other hardware, nor put on a tape and sent outside the company (or for that matter
inside).
Strange pictures of the local population,
altered by Gerard Holzmann's pico program. This
link is browsable and contains many of the images.
Typing Documents on the UNIX System: using -ms ... ,
Lorinda Cherry and Mike Lesk. PDF
or Postscript.
There is some loss of content in this rendition, most importantly
the paper's references and some figures illustrating various AT&T; memo
coversheet styles. Little loss in not seeing these;
their smooth incorporation in the printed version was evidently something
of a tour de force.
Tbl -- A program to format tables, Lorinda. L. Cherry and Michael. E. Lesk.
PDF or Postscript.
PIC -- A Graphics Language for Typesetting, Brian Kernighan.
This
gzipped Postscript is a direct link to Bell Labs CSTR #116; there
is also a PDF distillation of the same thing
available.
Pico -- A Language For Composing Digital Images, Gerard J. Holzmann.
PDF or Postscript.
Except for the small version referenced as popi at the
Strange pictures link, this program
wasn't carried forward.
The 10th Edition Raster Graphics System, Tom Duff.
PDF or Postscript.
This paper is mostly about hardware we used to have, how to
control it, and to manipulate images.