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commit 6130f253457dbe63814cccd95217a184a4b51231
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun Dec 21 18:02:25 2025 -0600
src/utils/grog/grog.pl: Update intro comments.
* Recast statement of purpose.
* Flesh out authorial history.
Thanks to TUHS for maintaining a copy of groff 1.01 (and to the Berkeley
CSRG for shipping it as part of BSD/Net-2).
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Net2/usr/src/usr.bin/groff/etc/grog.sh
---
src/utils/grog/grog.pl | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/utils/grog/grog.pl b/src/utils/grog/grog.pl
index 09f9635ca..0615ea392 100644
--- a/src/utils/grog/grog.pl
+++ b/src/utils/grog/grog.pl
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
#!@PERL@
-# grog - guess options for groff command
-# Inspired by doctype script in Kernighan & Pike, Unix Programming
-# Environment, pp 306-8.
-
+# grog - guess groff command line for rendering a document argument
+#
+# Inspired by "doctype" script in Kernighan & Pike, _The Unix
+# Programming Environment_, pp. 306-8.
+#
# Copyright 1993-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-# Written by James Clark.
-# Rewritten in Perl by Bernd Warken <[email protected]>.
-# Hacked up by G. Branden Robinson, 2021.
-
+#
+# Written in Bourne shell in groff 1.01 (ca. May 1991) by James Clark.
+# Rewritten in Perl by James Clark in groff 1.02 (ca. June 1991).
+# Many changes by Bernd Warken from May 2000-July 2015.
+# Hacked on by G. Branden Robinson since October 2017.
+#
# This file is part of groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
# groff is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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