From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:23:36 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] rm command In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180425212336.DDFB9206BE@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Hi Eric, > > it stands for the initials of the developer that wrote > > the original implementation, Robert Morris. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man1/rm.1, i.e. 1st Ed., says the OWNER is `ken, dmr' so it seems unlikely as I understand Bell Labs worked on a `last to touch it, owns it' principle. http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/u2.s has sysunlink. It's such a fundamental command that I'd have thought it was an early obvious addition, and a small one at that. Bob Morris seemed to always be involved in the more intricate stuff like various crypt(3)s, and TML, based on what we hear about him. (Google didn't seem to turn up much on TML.) -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy