15 Jun
2020
15 Jun
'20
8:15 p.m.
Hmm. Clem has a far richer recollection than I do. I don't recall Dan's
version, but I defer to Clem.
I do have a vague recollection of a program called cr3 intended to mimic
the tty driver thing. Perhaps that was Dan's version.
I note that my 4.1BSD manual more(1) says the author is "Eric
Shienbrood, minor revisions by John Foderaro and Geoffrey Peck."
On 6/15/20 6:56 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
Wikipedia says "more" was written by Daniel Halbert and expanded
by EricShienbrood and Geoff Peck.
I also believe that is partially true and Mary Ann is actually correct
in the provenance.
I think Eric arrived later than Dan (maybe a year later), but was also
ex-MIT, and he too had used/seen --MORE-- on ITS as Dan had. But I
was under the impression Eric started over. Then a few years after
Eric, Geoff worked with Eric's sources to add a few features. As for
starting over/hacking on the program from Dan's original code base,
it's hard to call that one, as I recall that Dan's version was not
much more than a hack on to cat(1). i.e. the original version was
pretty simple, and I don't remember that it 'knew' about the type of
terminal being used, get info from TERMCAP /et al/.