Re: Where to locate CSTR 122, CHEM -- A Program for Typesetting Chemical Diagrams?

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Oliver,

At 2024-11-10T09:26:33+0100, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Both the README file in the documentation for chem.pic and
> https://www.troff.org/papers.html refer to the manual: "CHEM - A
> Program for Typesetting Chemical Diagrams: User Manual" by Jon L.
> Bentley, Lynn W. Jelinski and Brian W. Kernighan. Unfortunately, the
> URL http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/122.ps.gz is dead and redirects
> to some kind of VPN service.

Yeah, that's too bad.  A while back Ralph Corderoy said he'd update his
web site,[1] but that hasn't happened in quite some time.[2]

He still finds time to opine generously on the TUHS mailing list,[3] so
I suppose it's simply not a priority for him.

> I tried searches on archive.org but to no avail. Does anybody happen
> to have a copy at hand?

See attachment.

Regards,
Branden

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2022-07/msg00012.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-06/msg00164.html
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