Re: [PATCH] man-pages.7: STYLE GUIDE: Mention UNIX for Beginners

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden,

On 6/18/22 17:58, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> At 2022-06-10T16:37:18+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> BTW, is the [2nd ed., BWK] thingy correct?  I did it from memory.

Oh, I just meant if the style (the brackets, the comma) was correct for 
references like this.  You probably have much more experience quoting 
than I do.

> 
> Yes.  The origin of this document is the Unix Programmer's Manual for
> the Version 7 release (1979).  The manual was published in two volumes:
> volume 1 was a compilation of all the man pages, and volume 2 was a
> compilation of whitepapers (all, or nearly all, composed using the "ms"
> macro package).
> 
> "UNIX for Beginners--Second Edition" appeared early in volume 2.  (AT&T
> lawyers insisted on the full capitalization, but several Murray Hill
> Bell Labs veterans have gone on record as preferring "Unix" to be
> spelled in mixed case as an ordinary proper noun.)
> 
> Some copies of this document on the Internet have been re-typeset, and
> some of them have misleading dates due to a technical detail of ms(7)
> usage.  The date on the copy that was typeset for the published manual
> is "October 2, 1978".

But thanks for the interesting history class! :)

And, considering that Bell Labs veterans prefer Unix over UNIX, I'll 
start using Unix (it's their thingy, after all).

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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