Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:08:38 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Bain <afrb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Robert D. Keys" <rdkeys@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, tfb@aiai.ed.ac.uk, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
Subject: Re: First edition Unix manuals
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Robert D. Keys wrote:

> > On Thu,  7 May 1998 at  9:05:02 -0400, Robert D. Keys wrote:
> > > I emailed him about the possibility of recreating the roff sources,
> > > an I will probably wind up doing that.  Then we will have a working
> > > set of sources for clean copy.
> > 
> > Great idea.  Keep us posted.
> > 
> > Greg
> 
> I have the intro and first few manpages of section 1 done so far.
> Maybe a week or so and then if someone will proof them.  I will
> port them in original roff source, and then make a troff set.
> Dennis was wanting someone to tackle an html version.  Alas, my
> html is not so good.
> 
It shouldn't be that hard to make HTML directly from the roff source (I
could probably be persuaded to do something like this, given the roff
source first of course!)

Alan Bain