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Re:Reviving the 1973 Unix Programmer's Manual by bch on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:51PM (#15737641)
"> The text of the manual was written using the ed text editor."

From where are you quoting this? I don't see it in TFA.

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Re:Reviving the 1973 Unix Programmer's Manual by lambda on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:05PM (#15737696)
From the rendered manual that is linked from TFA

https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v4man/v4man.pdf

> This manual was set by a Graphic Systems phototypesetter driven by the troff formatting program operating under the UNIX system. The text of the manual was prepared using the ed text editor.

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Re:Reviving the 1973 Unix Programmer's Manual by bch on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:15PM (#15737749)
Thanks. I was looking on the linked site and the README in the repo.
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