These are FreeBSD commits 731fe330c9 and 739c57d8c2. A request from what appears to be the author himself prompted these changes: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196786 And a comment in the source files of these tools verifies the authorship: * Author: John Kunze, Office of Comp. Affairs, UCB I don't know where the HISTORY information comes from.
Index: rs/rs.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/rs/rs.1,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -p -r1.17 rs.1 --- rs/rs.1 6 Dec 2015 08:07:51 -0000 1.17 +++ rs/rs.1 4 Jan 2016 19:56:51 -0000 @@ -234,6 +234,13 @@ $ rs \-eC 0 4 | sort | rs \-c 0 1 .Xr pr 1 , .Xr sort 1 , .Xr vi 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +utility first appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An John A. Kunze .Sh BUGS Handles only two dimensional arrays. .Pp Index: lam/lam.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/lam/lam.1,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -p -r1.8 lam.1 --- lam/lam.1 16 Aug 2009 09:41:08 -0000 1.8 +++ lam/lam.1 4 Jan 2016 19:56:51 -0000 @@ -122,3 +122,10 @@ can be done with: .Xr join 1 , .Xr pr 1 , .Xr printf 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +utility first appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An John A. Kunze Index: jot/jot.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/jot/jot.1,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -p -r1.18 jot.1 --- jot/jot.1 20 Jan 2014 05:07:48 -0000 1.18 +++ jot/jot.1 4 Jan 2016 19:56:51 -0000 @@ -313,3 +313,10 @@ To print all lines 80 characters or long .Xr yes 1 , .Xr arc4random 3 , .Xr printf 3 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +utility first appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An John A. Kunze -- Michal Mazurek
