Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:14:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, tyler spivey <tspivey8@home.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: program to convert hex to decimal or vise versa? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106240054540.86457-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20010624095334.A58464@student.uu.se>
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On Jun 24, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:43:15AM -0700, Dan Busarow wrote: > > I was going to suggest bc too but the questioner required scripts. > > Crist had the answer for him and taught me something new too. > > printf(1) who came up with that? And when? > > The man page for printf(1) includes the text: > > HISTORY > The printf command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. It is modeled after the > standard library function, printf(3). > > A quick look in /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree indicates that > 4.3BSD-Reno appeared in 1990. > > It has been there for a while. :-) Serves me right for learning on SVR3 What a cool thing I've missed all these years. Yea BSD > ( And it has long been a minor source of irritation for me since on at > least some Unix-systems when I write 'man printf' I get the man-page > for printf(1) instead of the manpage for printf(3) which is usually > what I want.) I'm getting used to specifying the section in man commands as the docs improve. Guess I haven't looked at printf formats for quite a while. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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