Re: [groff] 04/05: {g, n}roff.1.man: Give assistance to pager users.

[John Gardner]

>
> *I was trying to get the 1976 edition of CSTR #54 to typeset the other
> evening*


Where did you manage to get hold of that? I was under the impression that
the source code of CSTR #54 was long lost to the sands of time... :|

BTW, stupid question: how did people in the 70s read lengthy files without
a pager...? When I ran Unix 7 on SIMH, it lacked both less(1) *and* more(1).

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 22:53, G. Branden Robinson <
address@hidden> wrote:

> At 2019-07-01T18:44:47+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Now, conversely, the backspacing semantic model supports arbitrary
> > > character composition, which glass TTYs and their emulators never
> > > do.  (Almost never?  I'd love to hear of any exceptions.)
> >
> > Tektronix (storage scope) terminals allowed arbitrary overprinting.
> > The Tek emulation in xterm still supports this.
>
> Aha, thanks!  I've only ever played with the Tek 4014 mode enough to the
> U.S. map and other demos to print.
>
> I was trying to get the 1976 edition of CSTR #54 to typeset the other
> evening, and having partial success, and noticed that there used to be
> an output driver for Tektronix displays.  "tcat" was the name of the
> tool.
>
> That's good--I feel better about my example now, even if I feel worse
> about groff's lack of an output driver for the Tektronix.
>
> > (Overprinting also used to be central to generating the full APL
> > symbol set.)
>
> Hmm, yes.  I think the success of APL has something strong to say about
> the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, if only I could work out what.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>