Fascinating! I really dig the Unix/Linux history. Existing documentation often does not provide this kind of context, so posts with this type of information is very helpful to preserve the history. Thank you.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Convey <[email protected]> wrote: > |What is the difference between, > | > |& t2 > | > |and > | > |& p2 > > Note that mailx(1) is a very old program originating in the > seventies, First Edition Unix (1971) for one, but what you have at > hand 2BSD (1978). Research Unix mail seems to have known only > about 'p'rint from a short glance, but Kurt Shoens preferred > 't'ype for his Mail in 2BSD, keeping a 'p' alias for it. > 'P'rinting onto a tele't'ype, joining two worlds into one, > Hallelujah and peace. The manuals say they are synonymous to each > other. You'll find some more redundancies. > > --steffen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > nail-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nail-devel >
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