Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:46:52 +0200 (CEST) From: s.c.sprong@student.utwente.nl To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/19401: Correction for man 1 yes Message-ID: <20000620154652.A18B5154@wit401307.student.utwente.nl>
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>Number: 19401 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Change attribution of the 'yes command' >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 20 08:50:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: S.C.Sprong >Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 >Organization: FreeBSD Usergroup Drienerlo >Environment: All BSD versions to date. >Description: A long ranging discussion in alt.folklore.computers from April to June 2000 (`Why is there no "yes" command in Solaris?`) led to the search for the origin of the 'yes' command. Quoting from the most relevant posting: :From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa@trailing-edge.com> :Message-ID: <394F167B.26244ABD@trailing-edge.com> :Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 07:00:11 -0400 :Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers :Subject: Re: Why is there no "yes" command in Solaris? : :Yet on any V7 distribution tape, you find: : :-rwxrwxr-x 3/3 2522 May 5 20:19 1979 bin/yes :-rw-rw-r-- 3/3 84 Jan 11 07:02 1979 usr/src/cmd/yes.c : :And on any 32V distribution tape, you find: : :-rwxr-xr-x mhol/wheel 3228 Mar 25 16:56 1979 usr/bin/yes :-rw-rw-rw- mhol/wheel 84 Nov 6 15:04 1978 usr/src/cmd/yes.c : :So 32V and V7 had yes at least a year before it was put in 4BSD. Searching the source of older Unices in the SCO repository at: <http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient001/>; confirmed that either 32V, a Version 7 port for the VAX, or Version 7 itself were the first Unices in which 'yes' appeared. Some BSD attributions refer to the appearance of a feature in any Unix, others refer to the specific appearance in BSD. The current attribution for 'yes' refers to 4.0BSD, which in itself is correct. Yet to end the dispute I request to change the attribution line. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: change The yes command appeared in 4.0BSD to The yes command appeared in 32V AT&T Unix or The yes command appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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