[TUHS] Ninth Edition incomplete?

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Sun Apr 2 00:27:58 AEST 2017


> I find it striking that v9 is missing stuff like more or less.

As indeed one should. Few programs better illustrate the contrast
in sensibilities between Gnu and Research Unix. If v9 had --help
(which is a good thing) the counterpart programs would behave 
about like this:
        less --help | wc -l
        233
        p --help | wc -l
	3



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