From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso)
Subject: [TUHS] B-news source code
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:13:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170311131317.N-9PL%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201703110313.v2B3Ds0q017958@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
|> Wouldn't [> in quoted mail] have happened first in email, like Mail \
|> or mailx?
|
|Mailx doesn't do it now, so it probably didn't do it then.
It seems to have entered Mail not before 1988, when Edward Wang
replaced the fixed "\t" prefix with a "tabstr" variable (he
credits Tom Newcomb, newcomb at arpa, for this). In 1989 he
changed "tabstr" to "indentprefix" and quotes "to be Sun
compatible".
--steffen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-11 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-11 3:13 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-11 13:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-10 9:49 [TUHS] C-news is built Warren Toomey
2017-03-11 0:05 ` [TUHS] B-news source code Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 0:15 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-11 2:21 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 4:20 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-11 3:01 ` Warren Toomey
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