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From: meillo@marmaro.de (markus schnalke)
Subject: [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:23:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ZwUQo-5Yl-00@marmaro.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twotfl1a.fsf@fastmail.com>

[2015-11-10 19:16] Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com>
> 
> Did you happen to find out what GWRL stands for, in the the comments at
> the top of early versions of cut.c and paste.c?
> 
> /* cut : cut and paste columns of a table (projection of a relation) (GWRL) *
> /
> /* Release 1.5; handles single backspaces as produced by nroff    */
> /* paste: concatenate corresponding lines of each file in parallel. Release 1.4 (GWRL) */
> /*        (-s option: serial concatenation like old (127's) paste command */
> 
> For that matter, what's the "old (127's) paste command" it refers to?

Unfortunately I have no clue, for neither of them.

To resolve ``GWRL'', insider knowledge seems to be needed. (Or a cool
party with creative buddies, of course! (Today's the opening of the
carnival season in Germany ... that could be an opportunity. :-D ))

``127'', whatever system that might be, it surely predates UNIX.
Background knowledge from the time back then will be necessary.

I can provide neither of them ... and searching for such stuff is
difficult because the terms and their context are too generic.
(``cut and paste'' is by no means a valuable context if you try
to search for it. ;-) )

Maybe someone older or more inside has some ideas ...


meillo



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-11 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-09  1:39 [TUHS] PWB contributions Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09  1:48 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  2:12 ` Clement T. Cole
2015-11-09  2:54   ` Win Treese
2015-11-09  2:58     ` Win Treese
2015-11-09  3:36       ` Clem cole
2015-11-09  3:51         ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 15:40         ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-09 15:54           ` Clem Cole
2015-11-09 22:12         ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-11-09  3:38       ` Random832
2015-11-09  4:50         ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 13:58   ` Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 14:02     ` Ronald Natalie
2015-11-09 14:44     ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 20:26     ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) (was: PWB contributions) markus schnalke
2015-11-10 22:10       ` Clem Cole
2015-11-10 23:10       ` Andy Kosela
2015-11-10 23:12         ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 23:34           ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-10 23:39             ` John Cowan
2015-11-11  0:16       ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) Random832
2015-11-11 12:23         ` markus schnalke [this message]
2015-11-09 22:23   ` [TUHS] PWB contributions Jeremy C. Reed
2015-11-10  4:11     ` Random832
2015-11-09  4:44 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  4:51   ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  5:07     ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  5:09       ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  5:16         ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  5:16         ` Leonardo Taccari
2015-11-11 12:41 [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) Norman Wilson
2020-01-15  4:54 Brian Walden
2020-01-15  8:02 ` markus schnalke

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