[TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation

Chet Ramey chet.ramey at case.edu
Sun Feb 9 10:11:40 AEST 2020


On 2/8/20 6:54 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> Well, "whatis" was a fine starter in 1983.

At which point the name had been in use for something else for four
years. The name is the problem, not the function.

> 
> I'm not saying anything should change. This is a history list.

Sure. The question is whether you can get what you want today.

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