From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:26:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgzELHX7emvk56qDDOGa4RvdwxeRTRCL9nfPVQ65wzzZSQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200615025559.GK29495@mcvoy.com>
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Yeah, p is all we need. I think it originated with td at UofT. I might have
brought it with me to Bell Labs, or recreated it. Probably the former. The
Plan 9 version is, except for a change of I/O library, likely the same
code. 90 lines of C.
More and less are both more and less than p.
-rob
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:56 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> I believe that was my statement, not Dougs, and I stand behind it.
> Less was a huge improvement. If you want me to dig out why I will
> but I don't want to because it will make you look bad, that is not
> my goal.
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >> less(1) was actually an improvement
> > >
> > > Hmm. Less is my favorite whipping boy for featuritis.
> > >
> > > % less --help |wc
> > > 242 1331 12202
> >
> > % wc p.c
> > 90 219 1504 p.c
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-15 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-15 2:26 Doug McIlroy
2020-06-15 2:41 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-15 2:55 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-15 4:26 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2020-06-15 4:27 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-15 4:38 ` George Michaelson
2020-06-15 7:40 ` Ed Carp
2020-06-15 8:17 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 7:12 ` Thomas Paulsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-15 20:25 Norman Wilson
2020-06-15 21:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-06-15 22:55 ` Henry Bent
2020-06-14 22:52 [TUHS] Fwd: " 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 5:41 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-15 13:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-15 14:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-06-15 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-21 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 21:59 ` [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
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