From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] head/sed/tail (was The Unix shell: a 50-year view)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:13:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPGwDpG/bJu0Lr4D@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1626445038.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 08:17:18AM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>
> 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.
The leave program isn't installed by default, but it is available in
many if not most distributions (I checked Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu).
You just have to install it ("apt-get install leave" on Debian and
Ubuntu). The upstream sources at least for the Debian package is from
NetBSD.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-16 16:13 UTC|newest]
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2021-07-16 14:17 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-16 16:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
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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