From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>,
segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Project Idea: The UNIX Programmer's Manual: Heritage Edition
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:23:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c971548-14c1-420b-ba7b-5c2272da89b2@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic0MKDpaEMxKppny7Te49rpzDtaYiBq0Am_Kad3L8=0n+w@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/19/23 7:43 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
> Why (and when) did GNU drop the HISTORY section from its man pages?
We never had it. It originated with 4.4 BSD, and none of us picked it up.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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2023-09-20 1:30 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 14:57 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-20 15:40 ` Dan Cross
2023-09-20 2:09 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-20 2:25 ` Adam Thornton
2023-09-20 2:50 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 19:56 ` Larry McVoy
2023-09-20 20:52 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-09-21 4:09 ` Wesley Parish
2023-09-21 13:08 ` John P. Linderman
2023-09-21 0:26 ` Marc Donner
2023-09-21 3:06 ` Adam Thornton
2023-09-21 3:30 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-09-21 3:48 ` Phil Budne
2023-09-21 13:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-20 21:15 ` Alan Coopersmith
2023-09-21 3:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-09-19 23:43 ` Adam Thornton
2023-09-20 13:23 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2023-09-20 14:12 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-09-19 23:47 ` KenUnix
2023-09-20 6:16 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2023-09-20 7:19 ` markus schnalke
2023-09-21 15:53 ` Kenneth Goodwin
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