On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> Subject: Re: amusing bug
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> > :
> > For a description of a real antediluvian habit, there's a short
> > video somewhere (I can't
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> :
> For a description of a real antediluvian habit, there's a short
> video somewhere (I can't find it now) of him talking about why he
> doesn't need the Internet while crossing the Atlantic by ship.
See
https://youtu.be
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:48:44PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> Subject: Re: amusing bug
>
> I nominate Brian Kernighan.
He's exactly who I had in mind as well. This list of his lectures
on Computerphile provides for great history lessons:
<https://www.youtube.
I nominate Brian Kernighan.
Mike Bianchi
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:30:21PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Doug McIlroy :
> > Please excuse my antediluvian hangover.
>
> *snort*
>
> If I had to make a list of the top three people who nev
Doug McIlroy :
> Please excuse my antediluvian hangover.
*snort*
If I had to make a list of the top three people who never, *ever* need
apologize for "antediluvian hangover", the other living designee
besides yourself would be Ken Thompson. Sadly Dennis Ritchie is no
longer available to fill the
Ralph pointed out that
groff -o /dev/null
does behave right. It sits there waiting for input.
Having been trained on the very first groff, I overlooked
the fact that this is the same as
groff -o/dev/null
separable parameters of flag arguments are a "modern"
innovation. Please excuse
Hi Doug,
> For a good time, try
> groff -o /dev/null
> I have reported this to bug-groff
I get
$ groff -o /dev/null
troff: bad output page list
^D
$
I think that's correct. It passes it on to troff:
$ groff -V -o /dev/null
troff -o/dev/null -Tps | grops
$
A
For a good time, try
groff -o /dev/null
I have reported this to bug-groff
Doug
