From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 20436 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2022 12:50:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Jul 2022 12:50:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE2040146; Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:49:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from oclsc.com (oclsc.com [206.248.137.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A2B40144 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:49:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: by oclsc.org id CB9614F22F; Sat, 23 Jul 2022 08:49:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 08:49:44 -0400 From: Norman Wilson To: tuhs@tuhs.org CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <1oF87S-4zW-00@marmaro.de> <8NgHeeJiYEBE0zhtd9RdKIeYWcAwtxsnAj7YhVIvLpz-yt0__LeFvVzNNGgSNTeDGnVQy-qxkoHWvmRi84ybYyNAiMRDJuVoAaEG96UAu4s=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: <83CADD1C2866986767CAF9251E6EF882.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: GPK5UFGB3DFMGHFUAQKUBYWRZ325UB22 X-Message-ID-Hash: GPK5UFGB3DFMGHFUAQKUBYWRZ325UB22 X-MailFrom: norman@oclsc.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; 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: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: I had a vague memory that pr could be made to number lines, but a quick check of the 7/e manual says no=2E I expect Dan's right, and none of the 127 folks felt much need to number lines on printouts so nobody wrote the obvious simple tool=2E Ironic, since the Unix PDP-11 used by the patent licensing office (and I think shared with the research group, and that was how their first PDP-11 was justified and funded) happened because the patent folks needed line-numbered output and roff was easily modified to do that=2E Maybe Doug or Ken or Steve has first-hand memories=2E Norman Wilson Toronto ON (on a train shuffling toward Buffalo)