From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:55:55 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] 'Command subcommand ...' history
Message-ID: <201703281955.v2SJttFg004453@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

In some sense the "command subcommand" syntax dates from ar in v1,
though option flags were catenated with the mandatory subcommand.
The revolutionary notion that flags/subcommands might be denoted
by more than one letter originated at PWB (in "find", IIRC).

Doug