From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 23:50:27 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] PWB contributions In-Reply-To: References: <201511090139.tA91dCvK006536@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <627C631F-2B0E-45FC-97DB-7A8FE4DBB3B8@ccc.com> <52F63A89-B372-409E-9296-BAA4CBF848AF@acm.org> Message-ID: <35BEAC3A-0112-4750-8D5C-0A370AD6830A@ccc.com> 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. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 8, 2015, at 10:38 PM, Random832 wrote: > > Win Treese 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? > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs