From: Michael Siegel <msi@malbolge.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Origins and life of the pg pager
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:49:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76a036bf-c897-19c2-3461-ad85212060bb@malbolge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200614225208.GB6122@minnie.tuhs.org>
Hello everyone,
now that I'm subscribed to this list as well, first let me say thank you
for all the info on pg(1) you've provided. I really wasn't expecting
that much.
The only thing I'm able to add here is that, shortly after I had sent my
question to Warren, I discovered that the Rationale section in the POSIX
description of more(1) explicitly says:
The more utility, available in BSD and BSD-derived systems, was chosen
as the prototype for the POSIX file display program since it is more
widely available than either the public-domain program less or than
pg, a pager provided in System V.[1]
This also strongly suggests that pg(1) never made it into POSIX. Well,
if I'm not mistaken, that quote actually says that pg(1) didn't make it
into POSIX.
Michael
[1]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/more.html#tag_20_81_18
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-14 22:52 Warren Toomey
2020-06-14 23:37 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-14 23:52 ` [TUHS] " David Barto
2020-06-15 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2020-06-15 0:31 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 0:35 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-06-15 1:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-15 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 2:38 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:46 ` Alec Muffett
2020-06-15 2:26 ` Charles H. Sauer
2020-06-15 14:03 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 20:19 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-15 20:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 0:32 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Nemo Nusquam
2020-06-15 5:41 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-15 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 14:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 15:04 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-15 16:14 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 15:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-15 19:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-21 18:49 ` Michael Siegel
2020-06-22 0:35 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-22 16:24 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-22 21:33 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-22 21:58 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-06-22 21:59 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2020-06-22 22:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-06-25 1:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-06-25 21:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-07-05 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-18 12:49 ` Michael Siegel [this message]
2020-06-21 22:40 [TUHS] Fwd: " Noel Chiappa
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