9 Nov
2015
9 Nov
'15
5:50 a.m.
The Summit folks created pg(1). It was definitely in System V. But I think Doug's
memory of it being there much earlier coincides with my memory. As I mentioned more(1)
was part of the source kit I carried with me to non-BSD systems that I needed so I could
type comfortably.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 8, 2015, at 10:38 PM, Random832
<random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
Win Treese <treese(a)acm.org> writes:
Of course, as soon as I sent that, I found Dan
Halbert’s version of things
at http://www.danhalbert.org/more.html
From that page:
I named the program more. This was a daring move
at the time, since it
was such a long name for a UNIX command, and was also a real English
word.
That makes me wonder... where does pg(1) fit into this history? There's
a version of it in the 32V tree in the TUHS archive, but nowhere else,
yet it surfaces in modern Unixes such as Solaris and there's a clone in
the "util-linux" package. It also shows up in SuSv2 (marked LEGACY, and
absent from later versions). Was it part of System III/V?
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