Dell System V Release 4

[Larry Wall]

In article <3I59Z5G at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
: In article <14736 at uudell.dell.com> jrh at mustang.dell.com (James Howard) writes:
: > Pre-formatted.  AT&T says source to man-pages is like the rest of the
: > source, in that it requires a source license ($$$).  I'm sure if you send
: > AT&T enough dinero, they will be happy to send you the man source...
: 
: You know, it occurs to me that a hack to convert nroff -manned output to
: nroff -man source might be relatively easy to do with a little shell,
: perl, awk, tcl, or whatever script. The macros are simple enough and the
: output predictable enough that it shouldn't be too hard. Randall?

Geoff Collyer is working on one of those, according to Henry Spencer.
I don't know when he plans to finish it by.  But it'd be a fun little
project.

By the way, it "Randal", if you're referring to my partner in crime.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov