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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28377 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2023 19:56:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 20 Sep 2023 19:56:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC0341589; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:56:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 155CC41582 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:56:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id B221A35E918; Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:56:35 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Adam Thornton Message-ID: <20230920195635.GG28844@mcvoy.com> References: <4CmySC-mFud1dlrqfAq1itmNKoTWVi8cTuAqCvtUengKvv5CWEoYCFf6-I18dwf5BVSZWAxC-B6BP6Y1e0Gi_mlga344b5cxu5TlUCLXHeg=@protonmail.com> <20230919233925.GB28844@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: ZGA6XHU4K42A2AUKRN3A2VEOHZM2T2UM X-Message-ID-Hash: ZGA6XHU4K42A2AUKRN3A2VEOHZM2T2UM X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Project Idea: The UNIX Programmer's Manual: Heritage Edition List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 07:25:13PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote: > Yeah, I'm less angry at GNU now--I didn't search as hard, but when I found > out 4.3BSD didn't have HISTORY (and neither does 2.11BSD, which is still > actively-ish maintained) then I figured it wasn't something classical that > GNU dropped, just never imported. I feel like it existed on SunOS and > Solaris but I might be wrong about that? Was it really FreeBSD that > introduced it? I don't think SunOS had it. The SunOS man pages were pretty terse, the powers that be wanted just the facts. I remember get beat up for putting examples in some of the man pages I wrote, they got taken out "because examples are for user guides, man pages are not user guides, they are a reference guide" or something like that. I like examples in man pages, I think it jump starts you into using the program more easily but maybe that's just me. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat