From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SUBJ_OBFU_PUNCT_FEW autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 21029 invoked from network); 29 May 2020 05:19:48 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 29 May 2020 05:19:48 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7C4B69CA36; Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0809C1EA; Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id EED0D9C1EA; Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C7D9C1C8 for ; Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (aussie-gw.lemis.com [167.179.139.35]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3028280DD; Fri, 29 May 2020 05:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1F789263598; Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:29 +1000 (AEST) Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 15:19:29 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Michael Stiller Message-ID: <20200529051929.GC27423@eureka.lemis.com> References: <1jeHk5-5LM-00@marmaro.de> <20200529001853.GB27423@eureka.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TYecfFk8j8mZq+dy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [TUHS] fmt(1): history, POSIX, -t, -c X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --TYecfFk8j8mZq+dy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 7:10:50 +0200, Michael Stiller via TUHS wrote: >> On 29. May 2020, at 02:18, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> 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. >> ... > > It is also included in 2.9BSD, or was it backported: > > ... > > BUGS > The program was designed to be simple and fast - for more > complex operations, the standard text processors are likely > to be more appropriate. This paragraph is also in the FreeBSD man page, verbatim. The whole man page is at https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fmt&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --TYecfFk8j8mZq+dy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl7Qm2EACgkQIubykFB6QiNvPACeOpyZG/+HbfPyY598ckrFyzos CJQAnjBBlvNi85Wepmdv1vuQsUoPp0rT =Ynx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TYecfFk8j8mZq+dy--