Most folks don’s know this nowadays, but one of the first production uses of Unix was as a writer’s tool. The typesetter used back then was called troff — a rather arcane and often odd little language which did its job nonetheless. roff is still used as the format for the ‘man’ (short for ‘manual’) pages which remain the bedrock of Unix documentation.
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Most folks don’s know this nowadays, but one of the first production uses of Unix was as a writer’s tool. The typesetter used back then was called troff — a rather arcane and often odd little language which did its job nonetheless. roff is still used as the format for the ‘man’ (short for ‘manual’) pages which remain the bedrock of Unix documentation.
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I recently happened upon Unix is a Four-Letter Word. It’s a nice introduction to some of the regions of Unix most useful to the new user. Although I’d recommend emacs over vi any day.
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I recently happened upon Unix is a Four-Letter Word. It’s a nice introduction to some of the regions of Unix most useful to the new user. Although I’d recommend emacs over vi any day.
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