I was at Berkeley until July 1981.  The oldest SCCS file I have is 4/1/81 (for my dissertation project) and that was clearly my first use of it.  I wasn't using SCCS in 1980 when I wrote uuencode.  uuencode got SCCS-ized later when they put all of 4.xBSD under SCCS.

On 2017-03-20 03:27, schily@schily.net wrote:

Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:

I'm under the impression that shar came later in the 1980s. Google's
archive for net.sources only goes back to 1987 (unless I'm doing it
wrong) and clearly shar was already well established by then.

Can anyone put a date on shar, or at least before/after 6/1/1980?

BTW: do you remember why you did not check in uuencode into the SCCS?

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
...
Wed Jul  6 11:06:51 1988 bostic
        * uuencode.c 5.6
        * uudecode.c 5.4
          written by Mark Horton; add Berkeley specific copyrights

Wed Feb 24 20:03:58 1988 rick
        * uuencode.c 5.5
          use library fread instead of rolling your own

Mon Dec 22 14:43:09 1986 bostic
        * uuencode.c 5.4
          bug report 4.1BSD/usr.bin/2 and 4.1BSD/usr.bin/3

Wed Apr 10 15:22:23 1985 ralph
        * uudecode.c 5.3
          more changes from rick adams.

Tue Jan 22 14:13:07 1985 ralph
        * uuencode.c 5.3
        * uudecode.c 5.2
          bug fixes and changes from Rick Adams

Mon Dec 19 15:42:38 1983 ralph
        * uuencode.c 5.2
          use a reasonable mode for encoding data piped in.

Sat Jul  2 17:57:51 1983 sam
        * uuencode.c 5.1
          date and time created 83/07/02 17:57:51 by sam

Sat Jul  2 17:57:49 1983 sam
        * uudecode.c 5.1
          date and time created 83/07/02 17:57:49 by sam
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

In special, do you know why it has been checked in by Samuel Leffler and
whether it existed before July 1983?

Jörg