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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1ZwUQo-5Yl-00@marmaro.de \
--to=meillo@marmaro.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).