11 Nov
2015
11 Nov
'15
1:16 a.m.
markus schnalke <meillo(a)marmaro.de> writes:
[2015-11-09 08:58] Doug McIlroy
<doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu>
Did you happen to find out what GWRL stands for, in the the comments at
the top of early versions of cut.c and paste.c?
/* cut : cut and paste columns of a table (projection of a relation) (GWRL) */
/* Release 1.5; handles single backspaces as produced by nroff */
/* paste: concatenate corresponding lines of each file in parallel. Release 1.4 (GWRL) */
/* (-s option: serial concatenation like old (127's) paste command */
For that matter, what's the "old (127's) paste command" it refers to?
things like "cut" and
"paste", whose exact provenance
I can't recall.
Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to share my portrait of
cut(1) with you. (I sent some questions to this list, a few
months ago, remember?) Now, here it is:
http://marmaro.de/docs/freiesmagazin/cut/cut.en.pdf