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From: Nemo Nusquam <cym224@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [OT] Re: earliest Unix roff
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:00:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf4a47b4-9f7a-2b0c-b6cd-56f42fd8a5dd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1568919029.18595.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

On 09/19/19 14:50, Norman Wilson wrote (in part):
> So it's true that BSD added needless (in my humble but correct
> opinion) options, but not that it had none before they touched it.
> Unless all those other programs were stuffed into cat in an earlier
> Berkeley system, but I don't think they were.

Who said "Cat came back from Berkeley waving flags."?

N.

> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
> (Three cats, no options)


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-19 18:50 Norman Wilson
2019-09-19 19:00 ` Nemo Nusquam [this message]
2019-09-19 20:18   ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-19 20:33     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-19 20:39       ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-19 21:46       ` Steve Nickolas
2019-09-19 21:51         ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-19 20:42     ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2019-09-19 22:44 ` [TUHS] [OT] " Rob Pike
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-19 21:19 Norman Wilson
2019-09-16 14:51 [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 14:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-16 15:14   ` Richard Salz
2019-09-16 16:10     ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 16:16       ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-16 16:26         ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 16:31           ` Richard Salz
2019-09-16 16:45             ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 17:19               ` KatolaZ
2019-09-16 17:37                 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-16 18:09                   ` [TUHS] [OT] " KatolaZ
2019-09-16 18:19                     ` Jon Steinhart

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