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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] fmt(1): history, POSIX, -t, -c
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 10:18:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529001853.GB27423@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OMUb89KNvTR=9-U850Q+Ty+oSfOzTWNk8XVEZxgS06KA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at  9:30:09 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> fmt was originally written by Kurt Shoens at UCB when he worked in Mail and
> delivermail.

That agrees with the FreeBSD man page:

HISTORY
     The fmt command appeared in 3BSD.

     The version described herein is a complete rewrite and appeared in
     FreeBSD 4.4.

AUTHORS
     Kurt Shoens
     Liz Allen (added goal length concept)
     Gareth McCaughan

Greg
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-28 12:34 markus schnalke
2020-05-28 13:08 ` Rob Pike
2020-05-28 13:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-28 13:47   ` Clem Cole
2020-05-28 16:08     ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-05-28 18:00       ` Clem Cole
2020-05-28 18:35         ` Richard Salz
2020-05-28 18:51           ` Clem Cole
2020-05-29  0:18   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2020-05-29  5:10     ` Michael Stiller via TUHS
2020-05-29  5:19       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-05-29 13:39       ` Clem Cole
2020-05-29 15:43         ` Warner Losh
2020-05-29 16:12           ` Clem Cole
2020-05-29 17:14         ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-05-28 13:46 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-31 13:01   ` [TUHS] mh/hm, mmh (was: fmt(1): history, POSIX, -t, -c) markus schnalke
2020-05-31 14:53     ` Clem Cole
2020-05-31 16:25       ` Richard Salz
2020-05-31 16:50         ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-31 17:09       ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-05-31 17:25         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-05-31 17:28       ` [TUHS] mh/hm, mmh Mary Ann Horton
2020-05-31 18:56         ` Eric Allman
2020-05-31 19:49           ` Clem Cole
2020-05-31 21:31           ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-01  6:32             ` Caipenghui
2020-06-01  7:14             ` markus schnalke
2020-05-31 12:35 ` [TUHS] fmt(1): history, POSIX, -t, -c markus schnalke
2020-05-29  1:25 Doug McIlroy

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