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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:26:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d43b5f9-68cc-711a-a711-e8922b5c5953@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5n5EcMNn61yJ56w9Tb2J6hoYO2S-7-68ciYMpjB7WzDg@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/13/22 1:16 PM, Dan Cross wrote:

> It _does_ mention `makeinfo` in "the early 90s", so we may 
> assume sometime after 1984 and before 1992? `texinfo.el` from the Emacs 
> 18.29 distribution has copyright dates from 1985, 1988, but it's hard to 
> make out the actual provenance of the source in those files (ie, was the 
> 1985 date due to that file being copied from an earlier file created in 1985?).

Brian Fox wrote the original version of GNU `info' and the first standalone
C version of `makeinfo' in 1987, right after he started working for the 
FSF. (makeinfo has since evolved into a perl script.)


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-13  2:04 josh
2022-01-13  2:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-13  3:24 ` Win Treese
2022-01-13 14:56   ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 15:08     ` John P. Linderman
2022-01-13 16:06       ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 16:24         ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:39         ` Harald Arnesen
2022-01-13 18:00         ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 15:35     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 16:02       ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:20         ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 16:32           ` Warner Losh
2022-01-13 16:42           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-01-13 16:52             ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 16:54               ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 17:06               ` Clem Cole
2022-01-13 18:16         ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 20:00           ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 20:26           ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2022-01-13 16:13       ` Charles H Sauer
2022-01-13 22:53     ` David Arnold
2022-01-14  1:53       ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-13  3:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-13 16:25   ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-13 16:33   ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 22:19     ` David Arnold
2022-01-13 13:54 ` Adam Sampson
2022-01-13 16:37   ` Lars Brinkhoff

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