From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:01:02 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Questions about the history of cut(1) In-Reply-To: <1YuLeo-1Qx-00@marmaro.de> References: <201505181036.t4IAagZS031943@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> <1YuLeo-1Qx-00@marmaro.de> Message-ID: On Monday, May 18, 2015, markus schnalke wrote: > [2015-05-18 06:36] Doug McIlroy > > > > > I believe cut/paste originated in PWB Unix, but I can't recall who > > wrote it. > > Thanks for your reply. > > I checked the PWB code of bostic and spencer ... > http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/usdl/ > http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1 > ... but couldn't find any signs of cut or paste there. > FreeBSD man page states it originated in System III. If you browse the code of it, it is certainly there, but System III was a mix of various versions, including PWB/UNIX. Anyway, a very interesting research subject. Keep going! --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: