From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton)
Subject: [TUHS] B-news source code
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:21:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb351ba3-7031-aede-7036-034c14523a3f@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170311001514.GE30430@mcvoy.com>
So you'd think, but it appears it came first in netnews. Mail/mailx has
~m which indents with a tab, not a ">". Most likely in summer of 1983,
between 2.10 and 2.10.1.
On 03/10/2017 04:15 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Wouldn't this have happened first in email, like Mail or mailx?
> Hard to say, I'd guess sometime in the 1980's?
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
>> Where can I find source code for various versions of netnews?
>>
>> In particular I'm looking for B news 2.10.1.
>>
>> A historian is trying to track down where the ">" was first used in quoting
>> news or email. It's not in 2.10 (I do have that source code) but I suspect
>> it's in 2.10.1.
>>
>> If anyone recalls where this originated, please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mary Ann
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-11 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-10 9:49 [TUHS] C-news is built Warren Toomey
2017-03-10 10:29 ` [TUHS] pathalias and mail maps Warren Toomey
2017-03-10 10:49 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-10 15:45 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-03-10 17:52 ` [TUHS] C-news is built John Floren
2017-03-10 21:14 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-10 21:30 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-10 21:51 ` Nick Downing
2017-03-11 4:57 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-10 21:34 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-10 22:48 ` John Floren
2017-03-11 0:05 ` [TUHS] B-news source code Mary Ann Horton
2017-03-11 0:15 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-11 2:21 ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2017-03-11 4:20 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-11 3:01 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-11 3:13 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-11 13:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
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