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Typeset the Fourth Research Edition Unix Programmer's Manual
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Typeset the Fourth Research Edition Unix Programmer's Manual

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-v4man
• Owner: dspinellis
• License: other
• Created: 2017-11-19T10:49:34.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
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• Last Pushed: 2018-12-24T10:19:59.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
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# The Fourth Research Edition Unix Programmer's Manual

[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/111286354.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/111286354)

This repository maintains the tools for typesetting and

making available the *Unix Programmer's Manual*

(Fourth Edition, November 1973).

The generated typeset manual is made available

[in PDF form](https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v4man/v4man.pdf).

The manual pages and tools are derived from 1973 material unearthed

by [Dennis Ritchie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie), and

[made available](http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v4/)

through the [The Unix Heritage Society](http://www.tuhs.org/).

This is the first edition of the manual that was created

in [troff (typeset) form](http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v3/Readme.v3man) (rather than using *nroff*'s line-printer formatting).

I modernized the old shell scripts and corrected some minor markup

glitches through commits that are recorded in this repository.

You can find the evolution of the manual pages recorded in the

[Unix history repository](https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo).

Furthermore, you can find the evolution of the corresponding facilities

on a series of tables available

[here](https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/index.html).

## All manual editions

* [First Edition, November 1971](http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/UNIX_ProgrammersManual_Nov71.pdf)

* [Second Edition, June 1972](http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v2/v2man.pdf)

* [Third Edition, February 1973](https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v3man/v3man.pdf)

* [Fourth Edition, November 1973](https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v4man/v4man.pdf)

* [Fifth Edition, June 1974](http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v5/v5man.pdf)

* [Sixth Edition, May 1975](https://archive.org/download/v6-manual/v6-manual.pdf)

* [Seventh Edition, January 1979, Volume 1](https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/v7vol1.pdf)

* [Seventh Edition, January 1979, Volume 2a](https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/v7vol2a.pdf)

* [Seventh Edition, January 1979, Volume 2b](https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf)