15 Jun
2020
15 Jun
'20
8:38 a.m.
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 02:48 Larry McVoy, <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Yeah, but nobody used it. pg was not invented here in a nutshell. more(1)
was fine, less(1) was actually an improvement. pg(1) was a shitty also
ran.
I thought that the whole point of "pg" was that it was a print system
filter; that you integrated it into pipelines to throw proper formfeeds
every 66 (etc) lines rather than print over the margins of DECWriters
(etc), and that it wasn't really a tool for humans.
At least, that's how it was explained to me.
-a