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Branden Robinson" To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-ID: <20240301054445.6z667pf5ssy3562n@illithid> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qzy6zhxgigrlouid" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: EA26EX4MAO3CBUNQGPWUTVQSFRNXSLHN X-Message-ID-Hash: EA26EX4MAO3CBUNQGPWUTVQSFRNXSLHN X-MailFrom: g.branden.robinson@gmail.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 X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Of flags and keyletters List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --qzy6zhxgigrlouid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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). 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