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Re: [groff] 03/06: roff(7): Develop History section a bit more.


From: Ingo Schwarze
Subject: Re: [groff] 03/06: roff(7): Develop History section a bit more.
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 18:29:22 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.12.2 (2019-09-21)

Hi Branden,

G. Branden Robinson wrote on Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 07:37:45PM -0400:

> gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff.
> 
> commit fb713ba37ecabf0f6baea11933f96087e472c64f
> Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Sat Oct 24 11:46:53 2020 +1100
> 
>     roff(7): Develop History section a bit more.
[...]

> +In 1979,
> +Seventh Edition Unix added the
> +.I man
> +macro package to the existing
> +.I ms
> +macros,
> +both (apparently) by Mike Lesk.

I'm not saying that you are wrong, but what is the evidenvce
that Mike Lesk is the author of the man(7) macros?

Even though the authorship of man(7) interests me, i have never
managed to figure it out.

Yours,
  Ingo



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