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[groff] 19/41: roff(7): Tighten wording.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 19/41: roff(7): Tighten wording.
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2022 16:06:16 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 914f043892708ac21dff646c05bc5551d777f841
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 4 16:31:13 2022 +1100

    roff(7): Tighten wording.
    
    ...since early Unix had no versioning scheme beyond the edition number
    applied to its manual (see McIlroy, "A Research Unix Reader").
    
    Also fix missing word.
---
 man/roff.7.man | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/roff.7.man b/man/roff.7.man
index e45b171e..68ce5f6c 100644
--- a/man/roff.7.man
+++ b/man/roff.7.man
@@ -938,14 +938,14 @@ government.
 .
 This arrangement enabled the group to acquire a PDP-11;
 .I roff
-promptly proved equal to the task of typesetting the first edition of
-the manual for what would later become known as \[lq]Unix
-Version\~1\[rq], dated November 1971.
+promptly proved equal to the task of typesetting the manual for what
+would become known as \[lq]First Edition Unix\[rq],
+dated November 1971.
 .
 .
 .P
 Output from all of the foregoing programs was limited to line printers
-and paper terminals such the IBM 2471
+and paper terminals such as the IBM 2471
 (based on the Selectric line of typewriters)
 and the Teletype Corporation Model 37.
 .



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