At 2024-03-01T04:21:44+1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Just recollecting old memories: why did AT&T refer to "flags" as > "keyletters" in its SysV documentation? Some sort of denial of > Ed5/6/7/BSD's very existence? Not exactly the same thing, but Lesk used the term to characterize the format specifiers in the Seventh Edition Volume 2 paper on tbl(1). Regards, Branden