On Saturday, 21 October 2006 at 15:02:58 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-Oct-20 15:55:51 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:31:02AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
>>>> Document that jot(1), rs(1), and lam(1) first appeared in 4.2BSD.
>>>>
>>> What information this is based on?
>>
>> John Kunze's CV states that he "wrote three UNIX tools distributed with
>> 4.2/4.3BSD using this method (Master's Degree Project, 1983); these tools
>> ("jot", "rs", and "lam") are distributed in current Mac OS X systems".
>
> I've just looked thru the CSRG CDs and I can only find them in 4.4 and
> later. If they are in 4.2 or 4.3, they aren't obvious.Colin's right (or lucky :-). I have files here, from the CSRG CD-ROM set: /src/BSD-CSRG/4.2/usr/src/new/new/tools/man/jot.1 /src/BSD-CSRG/4.2/usr/src/new/new/tools/src/jot.c /src/BSD-CSRG/4.2/usr/src/new/new/tools/man/rs.1 /src/BSD-CSRG/4.2/usr/src/new/new/tools/src/rs.c /src/BSD-CSRG/4.2/usr/src/new/new/tools/man/lam.1 /src/BSD-CSRG/4.2/usr/src/new/new/tools/src/lam.c jot(1) starts: .TH JOT 1 "15 May 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME jot \- print sequential or random data and ends .SH AUTHOR John Kunze No HISTORY section. rs(1): .TH RS 1 "14 June 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME rs \- reshape a data array ... .SH AUTHOR John Kunze lam(1): .TH LAM 1 "14 June 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME lam \- laminate files ... .SH AUTHOR John Kunze I can't find earlier mentions. If anybody wants these files, I'd be happy to send them. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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