Re: [TUHS] whereis command

[ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>]

Thanks.

I did find a newer-ish version and I always get a kick out of stuff like this:

free_dirlist(&ls, ALL_DIRS);

right before the call to exit ... an inappropriate response to an
inappropriate warning, I suppose

I once had an intern ask me "but if you don't free memory before the
program exits, then it can never get used again, right?" :-)

(and yes, I know, in the paleo era, that was in fact true)

I'll go try to find that archive ...

ron

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 8:48 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > can someone point me at the earliest version of whereis? I first saw
> > it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
> > pages, thanks in advance.
> >
> > I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
> > search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)
>
> Looks like 2.79 BSD. From the TUHS archives:
>
> $ tar -tzvf 2.79bsd.tar.gz | grep /whereis
> -rwxr-xr-x 0/0            4412 1979-04-21 06:34 bin.v6/ucb/whereis
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0            1692 1981-01-13 17:37 man/whereis.u
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0            4519 1981-01-13 17:37 src/whereis.c
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0            3851 1979-04-19 07:04 upgrade/src/whereis.c
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Arnold