commit 7f777ed95a19224294949e1b4ce56bbffcb1fe9f
Author: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 9 14:25:15 1990 +0000

    Initial revision

diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
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+TROFF=		ditroff
+MS=		-ms
+PREVIEW=	dpv
+
+intro:		intro.dit
+		$(PREVIEW) intro.dit
+
+modules:	modules.dit
+		$(PREVIEW) modules.dit
+
+paper:		paper.dit
+		$(PREVIEW) paper.dit
+
+ref:		ref.dit
+		$(PREVIEW) ref.dit
+
+ALL=		intro.dit modules.dit paper.dit ref.dit
+
+all:		$(ALL)
+
+$(ALL):		macros.ms
+
+clean:
+		rm -f $(ALL)
+
+.SUFFIXES:	.ms .dit
+
+.ms.dit:
+		$(TROFF) $(MS) $*.ms >$@
diff --git a/Doc/README b/Doc/README
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+This directory contains the source to the Python documentation.
+
+Unfortunately it's not not very readable, complete or up-to-date yet --
+in other words, I'm still working on it!
+
+There are four documents and a macro file:
+
+	macros.ms		macros .so'ed by the documents
+
+	paper.ms		conference paper about Python
+	intro.ms		informal introduction to Python
+	ref.ms			Python language reference manual
+	modules.ms		description of standard modules
+
+XXX There should also be a man page.
+
+To typeset one of the documents on the default Postscript printer, chdir
+to this directory (otherwise the macros aren't found!) and issue the
+command
+
+	pstroff -ms file.ms
+
+When typesetting all documents, issue a separate command for each.
+
+--Guido (last modified 10 Sep 90)