From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] who invented the email attachment?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:34:54 -0700 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <58cfaea1.7iwnMeBm9Gzvxy4O%schily@schily.net>
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I was at Berkeley until July 1981. The oldest SCCS file I have is
4/1/81 (for my dissertation project) and that was clearly my first use
of it. I wasn't using SCCS in 1980 when I wrote uuencode. uuencode got
SCCS-ized later when they put all of 4.xBSD under SCCS.
On 2017-03-20 03:27, schily at schily.net wrote:
> Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm under the impression that shar came later in the 1980s. Google's
>> archive for net.sources only goes back to 1987 (unless I'm doing it
>> wrong) and clearly shar was already well established by then.
>>
>> Can anyone put a date on shar, or at least before/after 6/1/1980?
>
> BTW: do you remember why you did not check in uuencode into the SCCS?
>
> /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
> ...
> Wed Jul 6 11:06:51 1988 bostic
> * uuencode.c 5.6
> * uudecode.c 5.4
> written by Mark Horton; add Berkeley specific copyrights
>
> Wed Feb 24 20:03:58 1988 rick
> * uuencode.c 5.5
> use library fread instead of rolling your own
>
> Mon Dec 22 14:43:09 1986 bostic
> * uuencode.c 5.4
> bug report 4.1BSD/usr.bin/2 and 4.1BSD/usr.bin/3
>
> Wed Apr 10 15:22:23 1985 ralph
> * uudecode.c 5.3
> more changes from rick adams.
>
> Tue Jan 22 14:13:07 1985 ralph
> * uuencode.c 5.3
> * uudecode.c 5.2
> bug fixes and changes from Rick Adams
>
> Mon Dec 19 15:42:38 1983 ralph
> * uuencode.c 5.2
> use a reasonable mode for encoding data piped in.
>
> Sat Jul 2 17:57:51 1983 sam
> * uuencode.c 5.1
> date and time created 83/07/02 17:57:51 by sam
>
> Sat Jul 2 17:57:49 1983 sam
> * uudecode.c 5.1
> date and time created 83/07/02 17:57:49 by sam
> /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
>
> In special, do you know why it has been checked in by Samuel Leffler and
> whether it existed before July 1983?
>
> Jörg
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2017-03-18 23:46 Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-19 0:12 ` William Corcoran
2017-03-19 2:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-19 4:11 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-20 1:21 ` Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-20 2:23 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-20 7:32 ` arnold
[not found] ` <58cfaea1.7iwnMeBm9Gzvxy4O%schily@schily.net>
2017-03-20 17:34 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2017-03-19 11:42 ` Josh Good
2017-03-19 2:14 Doug McIlroy
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