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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, arnold@skeeve.com
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Trying to date "A Supplemental Document For Awk"
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:45:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202306280645.35S6jJKB008257@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1qEOcs-0000oO-Iv@skeeve>

Hmmm, skimming the file for the first time in a long time, I see that
he references 4.3 BSD as well.  Clearly, this document evolved over
time. I would still be interested in earlier versions if anyone has.

Thanks,

Arnold

Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> Attached is "A Supplemental Document For Awk". This circulated on USENET
> in the 80s.  My copy is dated January 18, 1989, but I'm sure it's
> older than that.  One clue is the reference to the 4.2 BSD manual,
> and 4.3 came out already in 1986 or so.
>
> Does anyone else have a copy of this with perhaps an older date?
>
> As far as I can tell from a short search, the author is no
> longer living.  If someone knows better and can provide contact
> info for him, that'd be great.
>
> In the meantime, Warren, do you want to add it to the archives?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-28  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-28  6:26 [TUHS] " Aharon Robbins
2023-06-28  6:45 ` arnold [this message]
2023-06-28 17:48 ` [TUHS] " Adam Sampson
2023-06-28 18:03   ` KenUnix
2023-06-28 18:38     ` Clem Cole
2023-06-28 23:47       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-06-29  1:59         ` Stuff Received
2023-06-29  6:27           ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-29  6:41             ` Andrew Hume
2023-06-29  6:45               ` Noel Hunt
2023-06-29  6:48                 ` Andrew Hume
2023-06-29  6:50                   ` arnold
2023-06-29  6:44             ` Noel Hunt
2023-06-29 14:02             ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-29 13:45           ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-29 13:34         ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-06-29 13:47           ` Rich Salz
2023-06-29 19:03             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-06-29  1:04     ` Bakul Shah
2023-06-29  0:26 ` Jeremy C. Reed

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