From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:07:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151225020757.GN14449@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151225010548.GE28750@mcvoy.com>
[sequence recovered]
On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 17:05:48 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 04:52:33PM -0800, scj at yaccman.com wrote:
>> This has been a somewhat bizarre and troubling thread, all in all.
>>
>> Would anybody want to discuss the origin of 'ls'? Or 'at'?
>
> What's troubling is wikipedia, I didn't realize they were that much
> of a pain.
Normally they aren't. I think it's this one editor. On trawling
through the pages, there's this policy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules
That seems to apply here.
Greg
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2015-12-23 13:36 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 13:53 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:17 ` John Cowan
2015-12-24 23:05 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25 0:52 ` scj
2015-12-25 1:05 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-25 2:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2015-12-25 2:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-25 16:21 ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-23 16:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 23:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2016-01-13 20:31 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-03 14:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-02 23:14 Norman Wilson
2016-01-02 23:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[not found] <mailman.1.1451005554.3365.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-12-25 18:41 ` David
2015-12-25 20:46 ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-25 22:22 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-02 19:56 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-01-02 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2016-01-02 22:22 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-03 1:26 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 10:30 ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 18:00 ` John Cowan
2016-01-03 12:10 ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:22 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-13 19:48 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-01-13 20:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-04 2:26 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-12-23 17:19 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 19:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 19:41 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
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2015-12-23 17:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-12-23 14:38 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-23 18:58 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 13:30 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 1:44 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 2:07 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23 2:19 ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-12-23 2:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23 2:36 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 4:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-23 13:45 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-23 0:27 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-23 0:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 1:11 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 1:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 2:01 ` David Ryskalczyk
2015-12-23 2:14 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 2:32 ` jason-tuhs
2015-12-23 2:44 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23 2:59 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 4:05 ` Random832
2015-12-23 4:27 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 0:46 ` Warren Toomey
2015-12-23 6:47 ` Dave Horsfall
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