Module Name: src
Committed By: sevan
Date: Tue Aug 23 02:58:45 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
src/bin/expr: expr.1
Log Message:
Add HISTORY section
Credit author of initial implementation in AUTHORS section
Bump date
Remove contraction highlighted by textproc/igor
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 src/bin/expr/expr.1
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Modified files:
Index: src/bin/expr/expr.1
diff -u src/bin/expr/expr.1:1.33 src/bin/expr/expr.1:1.34
--- src/bin/expr/expr.1:1.33 Sun Aug 12 17:27:04 2012
+++ src/bin/expr/expr.1 Tue Aug 23 02:58:45 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: expr.1,v 1.33 2012/08/12 17:27:04 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: expr.1,v 1.34 2016/08/23 02:58:45 sevan Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000,2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd April 20, 2004
+.Dd August 23, 2016
.Dt EXPR 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ treat it as a delimiter to mark the end
line options, and ignore it.
Some
.Nm
-implementations don't recognize it at all; others
+implementations do not recognize it at all; others
might ignore it even in cases where doing so results in syntax
error.
There should be same result for both following examples,
@@ -242,11 +242,25 @@ The
.Ar length
keyword is an extension for compatibility with GNU
.Nm .
+.Sh HISTORY
+An
+.Nm
+utility first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX).
+A public domain licensed version of
+.Nm
+written by
+.An Pace Willisson
+.Aq [email protected]
+appeared in
+.Bx 386 0.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
-Original implementation was written by
-.An J.T. Conklin
+Initial implementation by
+.An Pace Willisson
+.Aq [email protected]
+was largely rewritten by
+.An -nosplit J.T. Conklin
.Aq [email protected] .
-It was rewritten for
+It was rewritten again for
.Nx 1.6
by
.An Jaromir Dolecek
