Hi Valery, At 2025-09-20T22:19:25+0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 20:50:53 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Does anyone know if DWB 2.0 (~1984) supported the `lq` and `rq` > > strings in its man(7) package? > > I used to have a paper copy of Unix System III Document Preparation > Manual that came with Onyx Z8000. I gave it to someone for the > preservation effort and I was told it will get scanned. I'll try to > follow up with them to find out what happened there.
I've found a scan of the System III manual online, and moreover I'm pretty confident that System III's man(7) did not define these strings. https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/lib/macros/an That's why I ask about DWB 2.0 specifically; given its date (1984), the presence of the string definitions there would represent a significantly earlier (five years' worth) convergence, in this respect, for shared support between AT&T and BSD Unices. Also, we have evidence that DWB 2.0 got sublicensed out--I think the un-distributable Berkeley troff was based on it, as was SoftQuad troff. Maybe others, like eroff, were too. Also, for what it's worth, I didn't see either of our messages end up on the TUHS list. Regards, Branden
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