From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
"The Unix Heritage Society mailing list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] head/sed/tail (was The Unix shell: a 50-year view)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:17:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1626445038.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiW58PDPb5HRi12aKE+mT+O8AjETr9R51Db6U3KcEp_KkA@mail.gmail.com>
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Doug McIlroy asks about the Rosetta Stone table relating TOPS-20
commands to Unix command in my ``Unix for TOPS-20 Users'' document:
>> I was puzzled, though, by the Unix command "leave", which is
>> not in the manuals I edited, nor is it in Linux. What does
>> (or did) it do?
I reread that 1987 document this morning, and found a few small
mistakes, but on the whole, I still agree with what I wrote 34 years
ago, and I'm pleased that almost everything there about Unix still
applies today.
I confess that I had forgotten about the TOPS-20 ALERT command and its
Unix equivalent, leave. As Doug noted, leave is not in Linux systems,
but it still exists in the BSD world, in DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, and their many derivatives. From a bleeding-edge
FreeBSD 14 system, I find
% man leave
LEAVE(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual LEAVE(1)
NAME
leave – remind you when you have to leave
SYNOPSIS
leave [[+]hhmm]
DESCRIPTION
The leave utility waits until the specified time, then reminds you that
you have to leave. You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the
actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter. When you log off,
leave exits just before it would have printed the next message.
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2021-07-16 14:17 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe [this message]
2021-07-16 16:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-18 20:07 Douglas McIlroy
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2021-07-16 12:09 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-16 14:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-15 22:26 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-15 23:18 ` Jim Davis
2021-07-16 0:02 ` John Floren
2021-07-16 1:02 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-16 8:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-16 15:28 ` John Floren
2021-07-16 0:02 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 0:25 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-16 8:50 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-15 22:00 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-15 22:12 ` John Cowan
2021-07-15 21:26 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-07-15 19:01 Norman Wilson
2021-07-15 19:27 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-15 19:28 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-15 19:34 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-16 7:38 ` arnold
2021-07-16 16:09 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-16 8:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-16 14:19 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-17 0:34 ` Charles Anthony
2021-07-15 16:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-15 15:44 Norman Wilson
2021-07-15 2:38 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-15 4:19 ` arnold
2021-07-15 4:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-15 7:20 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-07-15 14:28 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-15 22:29 ` Bakul Shah
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