From: Ken Wellsch <kcwellsc@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <199901271514.KAA30920@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: UNIX V6 Enhancements/Games
To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:14:30 -0500 (EST)
Cc: agonza24@cs.fiu.edu, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
In-Reply-To: <199901262238.JAA05749@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> from "Warren Toomey" at Jan 27, 99 09:38:32 am
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Alas I don't know the precise details, but I do remember that the
University of Waterloo had an explicit license (seperate from the UNIX
one) just for the *real* troff code.  When I say "real" I mean the code
that drove a real typesetting device etc. (in PDP-11 assembler I think). 
We had a highly modified copy in use for more than a decade I think,
driving successive generations of new typeset quality engines. I can
check with the fellow that really knows all this history and details
if someone is interested.  -- Ken

| In article by alejandro gonzalez:
| > 
| > Reading the Unix Summary, I have noticed that some packages are
| > distributed as Enhancements: Like TROFF, or some of the Games, and not in
| > the orginial distribution
| > 
| > The Unix System the comes with the tapes does not come with Man, Troff,
| > etc.. Is any of this extra stuff in the Pups Archive? If so, Where?
| > 
| > Alex
| 
| All we have are the tapes as donated to us by Dennis Ritchie and Ken
| Wellsch. I don't know if a copy of the enhancements still exist. However,
| they may have been part of PWB UNIX, which was around at the same time as
| Research UNIX. Have a look in the Distributions/usdl section for PWB UNIX.
| 
| 	Warren