From owner-freebsd-doc Sat May 18 8:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BA337B407 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 08:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacbell.net ([64.171.188.238]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GWB00COTBIRND@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for doc@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 May 2002 08:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 08:14:49 -0700 From: richard childers Subject: Errata re: pax(l) To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: gnu@eff.org Message-id: <3CE66FE9.252CD5DB@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To whom it may concern: Reviewing the contents of the FreeBSD 4.5 release, I noticed that in /usr/share/doc/ there are files claiming that the utility pax(l) originated with POSIX. I am not entirely certain but I believe that pax(l) originated with John Gilmore. I specifically recall installing and using pax(l) when I was UNIX administrator for AMPEX R&D, prior to the last major earthquake; that would make it mid-1987 or before. At this time the documentation and source code had been entirely produced by John and I do not recall any mention of POSIX; in fact this may predate POSIX. If I am in error I do not mind being corrected; but if I am correct it would be nice if John received the credit he deserves for being a proponent of standards before it was popular. -- richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message