From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole)
Subject: [TUHS] PWB contributions
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 23:50:27 -0500 [thread overview]
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The Summit folks created pg(1). It was definitely in System V. But I think Doug's memory of it being there much earlier coincides with my memory. As I mentioned more(1) was part of the source kit I carried with me to non-BSD systems that I needed so I could type comfortably.
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> On Nov 8, 2015, at 10:38 PM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> Win Treese <treese at acm.org> writes:
>
>> Of course, as soon as I sent that, I found Dan Halbert’s version of things
>> at http://www.danhalbert.org/more.html
>
> From that page:
>> I named the program more. This was a daring move at the time, since it
>> was such a long name for a UNIX command, and was also a real English
>> word.
>
> That makes me wonder... where does pg(1) fit into this history? There's
> a version of it in the 32V tree in the TUHS archive, but nowhere else,
> yet it surfaces in modern Unixes such as Solaris and there's a clone in
> the "util-linux" package. It also shows up in SuSv2 (marked LEGACY, and
> absent from later versions). Was it part of System III/V?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-09 1:39 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 1:48 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 2:12 ` Clement T. Cole
2015-11-09 2:54 ` Win Treese
2015-11-09 2:58 ` Win Treese
2015-11-09 3:36 ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 3:51 ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 15:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-09 15:54 ` Clem Cole
2015-11-09 22:12 ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-11-09 3:38 ` Random832
2015-11-09 4:50 ` Clem cole [this message]
2015-11-09 13:58 ` Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 14:02 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-11-09 14:44 ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 20:26 ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) (was: PWB contributions) markus schnalke
2015-11-10 22:10 ` Clem Cole
2015-11-10 23:10 ` Andy Kosela
2015-11-10 23:12 ` John Cowan
2015-11-10 23:34 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-10 23:39 ` John Cowan
2015-11-11 0:16 ` [TUHS] A portrait of cut(1) Random832
2015-11-11 12:23 ` markus schnalke
2015-11-09 22:23 ` [TUHS] PWB contributions Jeremy C. Reed
2015-11-10 4:11 ` Random832
2015-11-09 4:44 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09 4:51 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 5:07 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09 5:09 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09 5:16 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 5:16 ` Leonardo Taccari
2015-11-09 2:14 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 2:32 ` John Cowan
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