20 Sep
2023
20 Sep
'23
8:50 a.m.
Yeah, I'm less angry at GNU now--I didn't
search as hard, but when I found out 4.3BSD didn't have HISTORY (and neither does
2.11BSD, which is still actively-ish maintained) then I figured it wasn't something
classical that GNU dropped, just never imported. I feel like it existed on SunOS and
Solaris but I might be wrong about that? Was it really FreeBSD that introduced it?
Adam
As per my silly bump (really I hate double messages, I'm probably being harder on
myself than any of you would be :P) it seems there are some HISTORY sections in the print
4.4BSD set I have on my shelf. The pages I did spot the section in do not have it in the
corresponding 4.3BSD volumes, although I'm basing this on a casual flip through paper
books at present, not looking down in /usr/man on any given distro. None of the
Bell-adjacent stuff I've flipped through has any HISTORY sections though.
- Matt G.