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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Of flags and keyletters
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 16:30:53 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403011628470.45039@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wq_m2T3HC8HIZL6MD8jrZ62JVFjeX-tdX95AoKnI1royl72LviCTfa0kgTA5fwr2_isewCBQ_0ahI84KWm-ZHJGhQbzUsCB4otnRii1ikwg=@protonmail.com>

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024, segaloco via TUHS wrote:

> Curious Dave if you have a particular piece of documentation in mind?  
> I'm mostly finding the term "keyletter" in SCCS manpages and pages 
> related to the lp print system.  This nomenclature appears to go back as 
> far as Release 4.0 of SCCS/PWB on February 18, 1977, it is also used 
> throughout the PIB regarding this release.

You're right; it was SCCS, not SysV.  Dunno what I was thinking...

Thanks.

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-01  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-29 17:21 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-02-29 17:59 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2024-03-01  5:30   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2024-03-01  5:44 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-03-01 15:49 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-01 16:23 ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2024-03-01 19:44   ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-01 16:56 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-02  0:33   ` silas poulson via TUHS
2024-03-02 18:53     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2024-03-02 18:24   ` Paul Winalski
2024-03-02 18:35     ` Warner Losh
2024-03-02 22:14 Noel Chiappa
2024-03-03 17:38 ` Aaron
2024-03-03 17:52   ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-03 19:28     ` Aaron
2024-03-03 21:24   ` Rich Salz

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