Re: tac (was Re: GNU shellery)

2017-10-03 Thread David Holland
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 03:22:24PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote: > > It appears tac was written by some unknown person, then rewritten > > by the late Jay Lepreau of the University of Utah in 1985 and sent > > to CSRG for inclusion on the "contrib" tape of 4.3BSD, but may or > > may not have shippe

Re: tac (was Re: GNU shellery)

2017-10-03 Thread Simon Burge
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > It appears tac was written by some unknown person, then rewritten > by the late Jay Lepreau of the University of Utah in 1985 and sent > to CSRG for inclusion on the "contrib" tape of 4.3BSD, but may or > may not have shipped with 4.3 -- I can't find the "contrib" sour

tac (was Re: GNU shellery)

2017-10-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:50:35PM +, David Holland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 04:04:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > ps: the tac in gnu coreutils is by no means "original" - the tac command > > way predates GNU - I forget who created it initially, but the real original > > (non GPL'd

Re: GNU shellery

2017-10-03 Thread David Holland
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 04:04:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > ps: the tac in gnu coreutils is by no means "original" - the tac command > way predates GNU - I forget who created it initially, but the real original > (non GPL'd) version could probably be found if there was a good reason > for tha