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        !             2: Would you mail a draft copy for the 10th edition
        !             3: to me:
        !             4:        Michael COndry
        !             5:        SF G-226
        !             6:        attunix!condry
        !             7: 
        !             8: Thanks
        !             9: 
        !            10: From andrew
        !            11:        after a chat with doug, i propose the following
        !            12: to deal with how to deal with the past publication of
        !            13: papers in vol2; both within the paper and within references.
        !            14: 
        !            15: within the paper:
        !            16:        if there has been substantial work by a new author,
        !            17: the paper gets that person as a new author.
        !            18:        there will be a footnote on the first page referring
        !            19: to the last published version of the paper AND a comment
        !            20: on who and how much revision was done. For example,
        !            21: my editing of the lex paper would be 'reformatted by ANdrew Hume'
        !            22: whereas the mk paper was significantly tweaked and thus
        !            23: 'revised' and if more work was done, 'substantially revised'.
        !            24: 
        !            25: references:
        !            26:        references to papers within vol2 have the vol2 paper as the primary
        !            27: reference and an 'also in' pointer to the last published version.
        !            28: 
        !            29: let me know if you are happy or not with this.
        !            30: 
        !            31: From utzoo!utgpu!godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu!drb Thu Jul 20 23:50:03 1989
        !            32: Received: from godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu by gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id 5285; Thu, 20 Jul 89 23:49:49 EDT
        !            33: Received: by godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu id 2409; Thu, 20 Jul 89 23:49:14 EDT
        !            34: From:  "David R. Blythe" <[email protected]>
        !            35: To:    research!andrew@utzoo
        !            36: Subject: reviewers
        !            37: Message-Id: <[email protected]>
        !            38: Date:  Thu, 20 Jul 89 23:48:59 EDT
        !            39: 
        !            40:        I would be happy to review it if you are allowing  2-3 weeks
        !            41: for the review period.
        !            42:        David Blythe
        !            43: 
        !            44: 
        !            45: From yquem!ber Thu Jul 20 18:41 EDT 1989
        !            46: To: research!andrew
        !            47: 
        !            48: I'm game.  When can you get it to me.  Before I leave for
        !            49: a week 8/6 would be good, then I could read it while on vacation.
        !            50: 
        !            51:        ber
        !            52: 
        !            53: From arpa!geoff Thu Jul 20 18:28:02 EDT 1989
        !            54: From: [email protected]
        !            55: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 18:28:02 EDT
        !            56: To: [email protected]
        !            57: 
        !            58: I'll read papers for the new edition.  I have already
        !            59: read the upas paper.  How soon do you need comments?
        !            60: 
        !            61: From pipe!andrew Fri Jul 21 08:37:45 EDT 1989
        !            62: proposed action for vol 2:
        !            63: 
        !            64:        by approx aug 1, volume 2 will be more or less complete.
        !            65: the only papers likely to be missing that i care about are the
        !            66: UCDS paper and norman's config paper. accordingly, i will make
        !            67: a couple of review copies to go to some reviewers (say like
        !            68: redman) and get back feedback on selection/presentation/content.
        !            69: 
        !            70:        by sept 1, i hope to have the above two missing papers
        !            71: and have folded back in feedback from the aug 1 review. This
        !            72: set i will send out for review by more people.
        !            73: 
        !            74:        around oct 1, finish reviewing, do any editing and
        !            75: last minute updates and be ready for publishing.
        !            76: 
        !            77: 
        !            78: comments?
        !            79: 
        !            80: From honey Fri Jul 21 10:58:51 1989
        !            81: From: Peter Honeyman <[email protected]>
        !            82: To: [email protected]
        !            83: Date: 21 Jul 1989 10:57 EDT
        !            84: 
        !            85: i volunteer my services as well as those of my droids.
        !            86: 
        !            87: From acsnet!oz!su!cs!sarad!bob Fri Jul 21 05:44:17 1989
        !            88: To: [email protected]
        !            89: In-reply-to: Your message of 21 Jul 1989 17:03 (Friday).
        !            90: 
        !            91: Piers and I would be happy to review the new manual. Piers will be 
        !            92: dropping in to you next week so you can tell him he was volunteered!
        !            93: 
        !            94: From utzoo!henry Fri Jul 21 15:15:57 1989
        !            95: To: research!andrew
        !            96: Subject: manual
        !            97: 
        !            98: >      we are producing a new edition of the manual,
        !            99: > both volumes 1 and 2. we are looking for a couple of
        !           100: > volunteers outside the center to review both volumes.
        !           101: 
        !           102: Definitely interested enough to review it, although if this is scheduled
        !           103: to happen next week I can't make it :-) -- I'll be away until Aug 2.
        !           104: 
        !           105:                                      Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
        !           106:                                  uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry [email protected]
        !           107: 
        !           108: 
        !           109: From arpa!csri.toronto.edu!darwin Fri Jul 28 10:34:53 EDT 1989
        !           110: Received: from darwin by lowther.csri.toronto.edu via UNIX id AA02305; Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:34:53 EDT
        !           111: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:34:53 EDT
        !           112: From: "Ian F. Darwin" <[email protected]>
        !           113: Message-Id: <[email protected]>
        !           114: To: [email protected]
        !           115: Subject: new manual
        !           116: Cc: [email protected]
        !           117: 
        !           118: I'd be willing to read volume 1 and some parts of vol2, tho I can't
        !           119: promise to get all the way thru 2 (unless you are very patient).
        !           120: Are you shipping the drafts in troff form or on paper?
        !           121: 
        !           122: Thanks
        !           123: Ian Darwin
        !           124: [email protected] (among other places)
        !           125: 
        !           126: From arpa!mtxinu.COM!ed Wed Aug  2 09:53:28 0700 1989
        !           127: Received: by garcia.mtxinu.COM (5.61/1.29-emg890307)
        !           128:        id AA00521; Wed, 2 Aug 89 09:53:28 -0700
        !           129: Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 09:53:28 -0700
        !           130: From: [email protected] (Ed Gould)
        !           131: Message-Id: <[email protected]>
        !           132: To: [email protected]
        !           133: Subject: 10th Edition
        !           134: 
        !           135: Send it to me:
        !           136: 
        !           137:        Ed Gould
        !           138:        mt Xinu
        !           139:        2560 Ninth Street
        !           140:        Berkeley, CA  94710
        !           141: 
        !           142: What's in the various volumes?  What kind of review do you want?
        !           143: 
        !           144: Ed
        !           145: 
        !           146: From utzoo!henry Tue Aug 29 17:59:14 1989
        !           147: To: research!andrew
        !           148: Subject: V10 manual
        !           149: Cc: utstat!geoff
        !           150: 
        !           151: Having read most of the manual earlier in the month, I find I'm now pushed
        !           152: for time when it comes to making a second pass for critical comments, so
        !           153: this is going to be a bit sparser than I like...
        !           154: 
        !           155: Something I've kept forgetting to grump about is that page 23 of the Sam
        !           156: paper and page 4 of the picture-format paper were blank in the copy I
        !           157: got.  (The latter I don't mind; the former was right in the middle of
        !           158: the most interesting part! :-))
        !           159: 
        !           160: Is the Spin stuff really of sufficiently wide applicability to be in the
        !           161: manual?  Maybe I'm just not into protocol design the way your crew is...
        !           162: Or was it included at least partly for the Promela manual?  If so, the
        !           163: blurb in the table of contents should mention that.
        !           164: 
        !           165: Dennis's paper on streams is certainly worth including, but it would sure
        !           166: be nice if there were a companion paper with up-to-date details on the
        !           167: programming nitty-gritty of writing a stream module.  Even the V8 kernel
        !           168: had a lot of fine points in the source that weren't written up anywhere,
        !           169: and I imagine it's gotten worse.
        !           170: 
        !           171: I'm surprised to find a writeup on the Blit communications protocols but
        !           172: none on writing Blit programs.  Surely the latter are far more numerous,
        !           173: and far more likely subjects for new programmers' creativity, than from-
        !           174: scratch reimplementations of the former?  And from what I know of it,
        !           175: the in-Blit environment is different enough to need documenting.
        !           176: 
        !           177: Nobody's using "bc" any more?
        !           178: 
        !           179: The Monk paper is good on "how to type documents", but I miss seeing a
        !           180: reference manual and/or innards manual for Monk.
        !           181: 
        !           182: 
        !           183: From arpa!geoff Fri Sep  1 02:53:19 EDT 1989
        !           184: From: [email protected]
        !           185: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 02:53:19 EDT
        !           186: To: research!andrew
        !           187: Cc: utzoo!henry
        !           188: 
        !           189: Here are my comments on the draft V10 manual.  I'm sorry that they are
        !           190: arriving at the last moment; Henry only gave me the manual Tuesday
        !           191: evening.  These comments are a mix of stylistic, spelling and content
        !           192: remarks.
        !           193: 
        !           194: First a few general comments.  I would like to see
        !           195: previously-unpublished papers and papers that will never be published
        !           196: in the open literature included in volume 2.  Your attempt to use a
        !           197: two-column format has largely succeeded, but an uncomfortable number of
        !           198: displays crowd the second column, and the vertical space between
        !           199: paragraphs and displays is often jarringly large in the first column.
        !           200: I have noted below pages with large vertical spaces.  In a few places,
        !           201: noted below, I noticed an assumption that laser printers all understand
        !           202: PostScript; I was surprised by the unusually low level of discussion
        !           203: and wonder whether this assumption is rooted in local circumstances,
        !           204: wishful thinking or PostScript enthusiasm.
        !           205: 
        !           206: Table of Contents.  It misspells obsolete as `obselete'.  I'll second
        !           207: Henry's comment on the lack of a bc manual, though perhaps you expect
        !           208: people to see the V7 volume 2 for that.  If so, why not omit the dc
        !           209: manual too?  Reference 28 looks incomplete.  The tours of pdp-11 cc and
        !           210: pcc have vanished; how about restoring the tour of pcc and adding tours
        !           211: of cfront, cyntax and cemantics?  If the latter three tours exist, I
        !           212: don't believe they have been published, which makes them all the more
        !           213: valuable.  The tour of the i/o system by dmr vanished; is there a
        !           214: current replacement?  It too has not been published in the open
        !           215: literature.  I miss the old "UNIX Summary", brought up to date.  I see
        !           216: that UNIX Programming is gone.  I know that it is reprinted wholesale
        !           217: in The UNIX Programming Environment, but I think people are more likely
        !           218: to read volume 2 than any book on UNIX and there is invaluable advice
        !           219: in there, such as how to catch signals correctly, that far too many
        !           220: people get wrong, out of ignorance.  I see nothing on the V9 shell nor
        !           221: m4.  m4 is arguably covered by m4(1) but your shell is different enough
        !           222: that I wonder if sh(1) really covers it.  Should there be something on
        !           223: Datakit?  You should probably cite the "New S" book, not the "old S"
        !           224: book.
        !           225: 
        !           226: -ms.  The abstract says "the the UNIX\(rg" Are the old macros, such as
        !           227: .TL, .AB, .AE and .AU, still recognised?  There is a disagreement about
        !           228: spelling: "in Palatino you would say
        !           229: .FP palitano".  The detailed discussion of lp and PostScript is jarring
        !           230: and seems inappropriate to me.
        !           231: 
        !           232: eqn.  Isn't saying "AT&T death-star \(bs" considered insubordination?
        !           233: 
        !           234: tbl.  The table in section 7 is incomplete; at least u/U and z/Z are
        !           235: missing.
        !           236: 
        !           237: dag.  That's an interesting UNIX family tree(!) but it lacks "10th
        !           238: edition".  Is figure 4 a joke about "subrecursive hierarchies of
        !           239: functions" theory?
        !           240: 
        !           241: prefer.  Throughout, inter-paragraph distance is large and jarring.
        !           242: 
        !           243: cip.  My cip does allow different sizes and fonts of text.  The paper
        !           244: refers to the 68000 in the blit.
        !           245: 
        !           246: ped.  The first column of p. 4 is really spacey.
        !           247: 
        !           248: troff.  It's up to date, and looks better in general (one could always
        !           249: see what had been hard to typeset in the old one) but non-tabular
        !           250: request descriptions aren't quite as pleasant as the old tabular ones.
        !           251: In section 20, the .mc description is indented too much.  p. 34 col. 1
        !           252: is spacey!
        !           253: 
        !           254: troff tutorial.  p. 2 col 1. is spacey.  On p. 3 change "many laser
        !           255: writers" to "many laser printers"?  p. 7 sees two first column examples
        !           256: run into the second column, luckily only into whitespace.  p. 14 is
        !           257: really badly spacey; can't this be fixed?  In appendix A, the eqn paper
        !           258: and the troff tutorial think death-star is spelled \(L1, but troff
        !           259: thinks it's spelled \(bs.  Who's right?  Does appendix A belong in this
        !           260: document at all, especially since it disagrees with p.36 of the troff
        !           261: manual?  In appendix B, "Laserwiter" is missing an "r".
        !           262: 
        !           263: monk.  On p. 3, the letter at the bottom of the second column runs on
        !           264: to the next page.  In section 4.11, equation (1a) on p. 9 is utterly
        !           265: empty and on p.10, eqn didn't process the in-line equation at the end
        !           266: of the section.  Shouldn't 4.13 be set in constant-width?  On p.11,
        !           267: section 4.14 figure 3 crashes into section 4.15!  Also fig. 3 hasn't
        !           268: been through pic and in section 4.14, figure 4 hasn't been through pic
        !           269: nor eqn.
        !           270: 
        !           271: mk.  p. 6 column 1 is spacey again.  Ozan mentioned that you are about
        !           272: to change the world; true?  before or after the V10 manual?  Change
        !           273: "aboyt" to "about".
        !           274: 
        !           275: snocone.  p. 12 is very spacey.  Are people still using Snobol?
        !           276: 
        !           277: f77.  p.1 is very spacey.  Is f89/f9? coming?  Why is there no ratfor
        !           278: paper?  No one writes bare Fortran.  Again, you should probably include
        !           279: or omit both papers.
        !           280: 
        !           281: pi case study.  Both pi papers are great.  In section 3, \\n appears
        !           282: twice in the sample program; change to \n.
        !           283: 
        !           284: dc.  p.1 column 1 is very spacey.  You probably should include or omit
        !           285: both dc and bc papers.  Why is pic referrence 2?  Does pic use dc now?
        !           286: 
        !           287: yacc.  The characters are fuzzy and the whole appearance is unique; is
        !           288: this tex output?
        !           289: 
        !           290: lex.  Pages 7, 10 and 12 have spacey first columns.
        !           291: 
        !           292: sam.  A great paper.  p.22 column 1 is spacey.
        !           293: 
        !           294: spin.  The mix of 2 column text and wide examples is disruptive and
        !           295: confusing.
        !           296: 
        !           297: picture format.  In p.3 section 3, troff has rendered the "fi" ligature
        !           298: in "picfile.h" (which is CW) as a Roman ligature!
        !           299: 
        !           300: setting up.  On p.2 change `# umask 2"' to `# umask 2'.
        !           301: 
        !           302: blit protocols.  p.1 column 1 is spacey.  It would be nice to have 5620
        !           303: protocols documented too.
        !           304: 
        !           305: v9 netb.  Change "ontaining" to "containing".  Pages 8-10 first columns
        !           306: are all very spacey!
        !           307: 
        !           308: v9 ipc.  On p. 6, change "wait a connection" to "wait for a connection".
        !           309: 
        !           310: unix security.  Change "anuary 16" to "January 16".
        !           311: 
        !           312: upas.  I have already commented to ches.
        !           313: 
        !           314: uucp by honey, dan and ber.  On p.7, example "READ=/usr/ber/..." runs
        !           315: off the page.  On p.8, both LOGNAME examples crash into the 2nd column;
        !           316: the 2nd one is missing a "\" at the end of the first line.  On p.12,
        !           317: the second example plows into the second column.  The first 3
        !           318: appendices have headings on the pages preceding the starts of their
        !           319: contents (i.e. move each heading to the next page).  Appendix III has
        !           320: ``'' which should be "".
        !           321: 
        !           322: backups.  Change UIMPS to UMIPS.  p.8 is a mess of overprinting.
        !           323: 
        !           324: From arpa!mtxinu.COM!ed Mon Sep 18 11:07:59 0700 1989
        !           325: Received: by garcia.mtxinu.COM (5.61/1.29-emg890307)
        !           326:        id AA01019; Mon, 18 Sep 89 11:07:59 -0700
        !           327: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 11:07:59 -0700
        !           328: From: [email protected] (Ed Gould)
        !           329: Message-Id: <[email protected]>
        !           330: To: [email protected]
        !           331: Subject: Tenth Edition, Volume 2
        !           332: 
        !           333: Well, I finally have something for you.  I hope it's not too late
        !           334: to use.  (I'll be sending the marked-up copy to you via Fed Ex
        !           335: today as well.)
        !           336: 
        !           337: These are general comments about style.  I agree that a two-column
        !           338: format is generally easier to read, but for many of the papers
        !           339: the price seems to be too high.  In particular, many of the examples
        !           340: (unfilled text) extend beyone the edge of the column; in some
        !           341: cases (the Honey-DAN-BER UUCP paper comes to mind) the example
        !           342: disappears off the right edge of the page or obliterates text in
        !           343: the right-hand column.  Vertical justification of the columns often
        !           344: produces unpleasing amounts of space between paragraphs.  It's
        !           345: particularly bad in Koenig's "Snocone" paper.  I seem to remember
        !           346: seeing an orphaned section title, too.  (That struck me as a bug
        !           347: in the vertical-spacing stuff, not as a fundamental problem.)
        !           348: 
        !           349: A few of the titles seemed uncharacteristically uninformative.
        !           350: Titles of the form "FooBar, a Language for Fools -- User's Manual"
        !           351: are better than "FooBar Manual".  The Spin and Pico papers
        !           352: were the ones that particularly struck me.
        !           353: 
        !           354: Font usage is not uniform.  For example, the "sam" paper uses
        !           355: the CW font for the name of the program - even in the title -
        !           356: where others use Italic.  I think I saw one paper that used CW
        !           357: for section titles (but I didn't write down which one, and I dont see it
        !           358: now in a quick look);  the Sethi YACC paper is typographically unique
        !           359: (actually, I like much of it; I'm not, however, fond of mixing
        !           360: sans-serif titles with serifed text).
        !           361: 
        !           362: Odds and ends are marked in red on the hard copy.  I tried to make
        !           363: them obvious enough to find by just glancing at the marked page,
        !           364: but I didn't do anything to flag the marked pages.
        !           365: 
        !           366: Let me know *today* if the following is not the correct address
        !           367: to which to send the hard copy:
        !           368: 
        !           369:        Andrew Hume
        !           370:        Bell Laboratories
        !           371:        Room 2C-471
        !           372:        600 Mountain Ave.
        !           373:        Murray Hill, NJ  07974
        !           374: 
        !           375: Ed
        !           376: 
        !           377: From arpa!mtxinu.COM!ed Thu Sep 21 11:24:16 0700 1989
        !           378: Received: by garcia.mtxinu.COM (5.61/1.29-emg890307)
        !           379:        id AA00878; Thu, 21 Sep 89 11:24:16 -0700
        !           380: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 89 11:24:16 -0700
        !           381: From: [email protected] (Ed Gould)
        !           382: Message-Id: <[email protected]>
        !           383: To: [email protected]
        !           384: 
        !           385: I was the only reviewer here, but I'd love to get one for myself
        !           386: as well as one for the company.
        !           387: 
        !           388: From norman Sat Sep 23 12:36:00 EDT 1989
        !           389: Hayes,Donald L          bl  614860 4289  CB   1L334  45256    cbusa!dlh
        !           390: 
        !           391: From arpa!geoff Fri Sep  1 02:53:19 EDT 1989
        !           392: From: [email protected]
        !           393: Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 02:53:19 EDT
        !           394: To: research!andrew
        !           395: Cc: utzoo!henry
        !           396: 
        !           397: Here are my comments on the draft V10 manual.  I'm sorry that they are
        !           398: arriving at the last moment; Henry only gave me the manual Tuesday
        !           399: evening.  These comments are a mix of stylistic, spelling and content
        !           400: remarks.
        !           401: 
        !           402: First a few general comments.  I would like to see
        !           403: previously-unpublished papers and papers that will never be published
        !           404: in the open literature included in volume 2.  Your attempt to use a
        !           405: two-column format has largely succeeded, but an uncomfortable number of
        !           406: displays crowd the second column, and the vertical space between
        !           407: paragraphs and displays is often jarringly large in the first column.
        !           408: I have noted below pages with large vertical spaces.  In a few places,
        !           409: noted below, I noticed an assumption that laser printers all understand
        !           410: PostScript; I was surprised by the unusually low level of discussion
        !           411: and wonder whether this assumption is rooted in local circumstances,
        !           412: wishful thinking or PostScript enthusiasm.
        !           413: 
        !           414: Table of Contents.  It misspells obsolete as `obselete'.  I'll second
        !           415: Henry's comment on the lack of a bc manual, though perhaps you expect
        !           416: people to see the V7 volume 2 for that.  If so, why not omit the dc
        !           417: manual too?  Reference 28 looks incomplete.  The tours of pdp-11 cc and
        !           418: pcc have vanished; how about restoring the tour of pcc and adding tours
        !           419: of cfront, cyntax and cemantics?  If the latter three tours exist, I
        !           420: don't believe they have been published, which makes them all the more
        !           421: valuable.  The tour of the i/o system by dmr vanished; is there a
        !           422: current replacement?  It too has not been published in the open
        !           423: literature.  I miss the old "UNIX Summary", brought up to date.  I see
        !           424: that UNIX Programming is gone.  I know that it is reprinted wholesale
        !           425: in The UNIX Programming Environment, but I think people are more likely
        !           426: to read volume 2 than any book on UNIX and there is invaluable advice
        !           427: in there, such as how to catch signals correctly, that far too many
        !           428: people get wrong, out of ignorance.  I see nothing on the V9 shell nor
        !           429: m4.  m4 is arguably covered by m4(1) but your shell is different enough
        !           430: that I wonder if sh(1) really covers it.  Should there be something on
        !           431: Datakit?  You should probably cite the "New S" book, not the "old S"
        !           432: book.
        !           433: 
        !           434: -ms.  The abstract says "the the UNIX\(rg" Are the old macros, such as
        !           435: .TL, .AB, .AE and .AU, still recognised?  There is a disagreement about
        !           436: spelling: "in Palatino you would say
        !           437: .FP palitano".  The detailed discussion of lp and PostScript is jarring
        !           438: and seems inappropriate to me.
        !           439: 
        !           440: eqn.  Isn't saying "AT&T death-star \(bs" considered insubordination?
        !           441: 
        !           442: tbl.  The table in section 7 is incomplete; at least u/U and z/Z are
        !           443: missing.
        !           444: 
        !           445: dag.  That's an interesting UNIX family tree(!) but it lacks "10th
        !           446: edition".  Is figure 4 a joke about "subrecursive hierarchies of
        !           447: functions" theory?
        !           448: 
        !           449: prefer.  Throughout, inter-paragraph distance is large and jarring.
        !           450: 
        !           451: cip.  My cip does allow different sizes and fonts of text.  The paper
        !           452: refers to the 68000 in the blit.
        !           453: 
        !           454: ped.  The first column of p. 4 is really spacey.
        !           455: 
        !           456: troff.  It's up to date, and looks better in general (one could always
        !           457: see what had been hard to typeset in the old one) but non-tabular
        !           458: request descriptions aren't quite as pleasant as the old tabular ones.
        !           459: In section 20, the .mc description is indented too much.  p. 34 col. 1
        !           460: is spacey!
        !           461: 
        !           462: troff tutorial.  p. 2 col 1. is spacey.  On p. 3 change "many laser
        !           463: writers" to "many laser printers"?  p. 7 sees two first column examples
        !           464: run into the second column, luckily only into whitespace.  p. 14 is
        !           465: really badly spacey; can't this be fixed?  In appendix A, the eqn paper
        !           466: and the troff tutorial think death-star is spelled \(L1, but troff
        !           467: thinks it's spelled \(bs.  Who's right?  Does appendix A belong in this
        !           468: document at all, especially since it disagrees with p.36 of the troff
        !           469: manual?  In appendix B, "Laserwiter" is missing an "r".
        !           470: 
        !           471: monk.  On p. 3, the letter at the bottom of the second column runs on
        !           472: to the next page.  In section 4.11, equation (1a) on p. 9 is utterly
        !           473: empty and on p.10, eqn didn't process the in-line equation at the end
        !           474: of the section.  Shouldn't 4.13 be set in constant-width?  On p.11,
        !           475: section 4.14 figure 3 crashes into section 4.15!  Also fig. 3 hasn't
        !           476: been through pic and in section 4.14, figure 4 hasn't been through pic
        !           477: nor eqn.
        !           478: 
        !           479: mk.  p. 6 column 1 is spacey again.  Ozan mentioned that you are about
        !           480: to change the world; true?  before or after the V10 manual?  Change
        !           481: "aboyt" to "about".
        !           482: 
        !           483: snocone.  p. 12 is very spacey.  Are people still using Snobol?
        !           484: 
        !           485: f77.  p.1 is very spacey.  Is f89/f9? coming?  Why is there no ratfor
        !           486: paper?  No one writes bare Fortran.  Again, you should probably include
        !           487: or omit both papers.
        !           488: 
        !           489: pi case study.  Both pi papers are great.  In section 3, \\n appears
        !           490: twice in the sample program; change to \n.
        !           491: 
        !           492: dc.  p.1 column 1 is very spacey.  You probably should include or omit
        !           493: both dc and bc papers.  Why is pic referrence 2?  Does pic use dc now?
        !           494: 
        !           495: yacc.  The characters are fuzzy and the whole appearance is unique; is
        !           496: this tex output?
        !           497: 
        !           498: lex.  Pages 7, 10 and 12 have spacey first columns.
        !           499: 
        !           500: sam.  A great paper.  p.22 column 1 is spacey.
        !           501: 
        !           502: spin.  The mix of 2 column text and wide examples is disruptive and
        !           503: confusing.
        !           504: 
        !           505: picture format.  In p.3 section 3, troff has rendered the "fi" ligature
        !           506: in "picfile.h" (which is CW) as a Roman ligature!
        !           507: 
        !           508: setting up.  On p.2 change `# umask 2"' to `# umask 2'.
        !           509: 
        !           510: blit protocols.  p.1 column 1 is spacey.  It would be nice to have 5620
        !           511: protocols documented too.
        !           512: 
        !           513: v9 netb.  Change "ontaining" to "containing".  Pages 8-10 first columns
        !           514: are all very spacey!
        !           515: 
        !           516: v9 ipc.  On p. 6, change "wait a connection" to "wait for a connection".
        !           517: 
        !           518: unix security.  Change "anuary 16" to "January 16".
        !           519: 
        !           520: upas.  I have already commented to ches.
        !           521: 
        !           522: uucp by honey, dan and ber.  On p.7, example "READ=/usr/ber/..." runs
        !           523: off the page.  On p.8, both LOGNAME examples crash into the 2nd column;
        !           524: the 2nd one is missing a "\" at the end of the first line.  On p.12,
        !           525: the second example plows into the second column.  The first 3
        !           526: appendices have headings on the pages preceding the starts of their
        !           527: contents (i.e. move each heading to the next page).  Appendix III has
        !           528: ``'' which should be "".
        !           529: 
        !           530: backups.  Change UIMPS to UMIPS.  p.8 is a mess of overprinting.
        !           531: 

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