[ih] History from 1960s to 2025

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 15:55:39 PST 2025


On 26-Dec-25 12:06, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/12/2025 23:59, Craig Partridge via Internet-history wrote:
>>> 2. Is it true to say that the de facto standard tool for producing early
>>> I-Ds was nroff?
>>>
>> Yes, Jon Postel had an nroff to RFC format script which we all used.
> 
> https://github.com/oberstet/scratchbox/blob/master/docs/rfc/3-nroff.template ?

Try this to get you back to 1991:

https://www.potaroo.net/ietf/old-ids/2-nroff.template

I'd forgotten all about pg and fix.sh, but I see that I still have them hiding in a folder called OldUnixStuff/bin.

     Brian

     Brian


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