16 Sep
2019
16 Sep
'19
11:35 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 1:24 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
The secondary point is they could have *added* to Unix
by making a
man2info command
Exactly!!!! That's what Eric did when he wrote more(ucb) - he *added to
Unix*. The funny part was that USG thought more(ucb) was a good idea and
then wrote their own, pg(att); which was just as arrogant as the info
behavior from the Gnu folks!!! Later, Less(internet) replaced more, but
only as a superset, building on the foundation and eventually USB chose to
ship more also as so many people wanted it.
As I said yesterday, standing on the shoulders, not on their toes.