[Groff] Re: groff documentation

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:49:02AM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I have the BSD based source to all the troff stuff:
> 
> 01.begin/  08.mh/        15.vi/        22.memacros/  29.refer/    DONE
> 02.learn/  09.newsread/  16.ex/        23.meref/     30.invert/   SCCS/
> 03.shell/  10.etiq/      17.jove/      24.troff/     31.bib/      grap.ps
> 04.csh/    11.notes/     18.sed/       25.trofftut/  32.diction/  title
> 05.dc/     12.edtut/     19.awk/       26.eqn/       33.rogue/
> 06.bc/     13.edadv/     20.msmacros/  27.eqnguide/  34.trek/
> 07.Mail/   14.edit/      21.msdiffs/   28.tbl/       99.pic/
> 
> 99.pic is Raymond's rewrite.  
> 
> I'm wondering if we could get a project going to transfer the groff 
> extensions to this baseline so we could have an up to date version
> of the docs written in *roff.  I've always found it weird that groff
> docs aren't in roff, seems a bit lame.
> 
> I have to dig through my mail to make sure it's legal (I discussed this
> with Dennis and Brian and I think got an OK) but I suspect it's fine, 
> the date on these is old enough that copyright protection has long 
> since expired.
> 
> Any interest?
> 
FreeBSD has most of these working under Groff (those that are
still of an interest nowadays, and not limited to the USD only):

psd:
01.cacm 02.implement 03.iosys 04.uprog 05.sysman 06.Clang 12.make
13.rcs 14.sccs 15.yacc 16.lex 17.m4 18.gprof 20.ipctut 21.ipc
22.rpcgen 23.rpc 24.xdr 25.xdrrfc 26.rpcrfc 27.nfsrfc 28.cvs

smm:
01.setup 02.config 03.fsck 04.quotas 05.fastfs 06.nfs 07.lpd
08.sendmailop 10.named 11.timedop 12.timed 18.net

usd:
04.csh 07.mail 10.exref 11.edit 12.vi 13.viref 18.msdiffs 19.memacros
20.meref 21.troff 22.trofftut


Cheers,
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