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213 points kaycebasques | 3 comments | 05 Apr 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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badc0ffee ◴[05 Apr 25 05:21 UTC] No.43590996[source]▶
Somehow I had never heard of/seen this before. It looks like a prog rock album cover or something.

Some old commands in there I haven't used in a long time (poke, uucp), or never used - I think the troff I know is actually the one in GWBASIC (tracing off).

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1. jibal ◴[05 Apr 25 11:29 UTC] No.43592530[source]▶
Much of the acceptance of UNIX at Bell Labs was due to its role as a typesetting system, with troff, eqn, and tbl commands. I worked for a UNIX support company (Interactive Systems Corporation) and our first customer was the U.S. Supreme Court because they deal with so many documents.
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2. PopAlongKid ◴[05 Apr 25 13:40 UTC] No.43593429[source]▶
When I first started using Unix in school in the early 1980s, at least a third of the time was using nroff/troff, tbl and eqn. Maybe another 20% playing rogue. The rest was used to become a vi/ex advanced user, writing csh and awk scripts, and learning C.

The article mentions the "t" in troff, but doesn't mention that "roff" was short for "run off". I forget what the "n" was for.

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3. abetusk ◴[05 Apr 25 14:42 UTC] No.43593884[source]▶
"New" roff [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff