[Groff] Re: Groff digest, Vol 1 #797 - 16 msgs

[Larry McVoy]

> > There *is* a book on `ancient troff' available online:
> > 
> > http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
> > 
> > This is Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly's 1987 book Unix Text
> > Processing.  The full text (several hundred pages) is available,
> > though not in the most convenient form (large scans of individual
> > pages - a tarball of the .pbm files is 37 Mb (!)) - but even with a
> > modem it is possible to browse the book page by page.
> 
> Am I right in recalling that there is an on-going effort by people on
> this list to OCR, or equivalent, these images?

Has anyone contacted O'Reilly and asked if they have the source to the
book?  I know Tim O'Reilly slightly, I can do that if nobody has yet.
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