Unix Seventh Edition Manual (original) (raw)

This page points to the source for the documents that came with the Seventh Edition release of the Unix operating system from (then) Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. The files are those that were shipped on the distribution tapes.

The printed version came in three volumes: 1, 2A, 2B. Volume one has the traditional "man pages" describing commands, system calls, etc. Volumes 2 contained papers describing various parts of the system in more detail. Besides the version shipped with the distribution, the manuals were later reprinted by Saunders College Publishing; doubtless this edition is out of print.

Thanks to the efforts of Brian S. Walden and then Aharon Robbins,PDF and PostScript renditions are available. The PDF is readily searchable and printable if you have an Adobe Acrobat reader.

For those who prefer the original bits, the manual sections referenced below need to be formatted with troff, using the -man macros (a copy of which is here, as tmac.an). The papers are generally formatted with the -ms macros (tmac.s). The other tmac files are included by tmac.s.

References are included by using the refer program, which almost no one has any more. However, the database of references is included (Rv7man) in case someone wants to look up a reference by hand.

CAUTION: The source material here is not formatted for HTML and is not readily viewed over the web unless you like to read troff. The files that end with ".bun" are shell bundles of documents that were in several separate files.

All of this material was copyrighted in 1979 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated. Currently the copyright is held jointly by Lucent Technologies Inc. and AT&T Corporation. All rights reserved.

Volume 1

Volumes 2A and 2B

Macros and References

tmac.s
tmac.scover
tmac.sdisp
tmac.skeep
tmac.an
tmac.srefs
Rv7man