[TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager

Alec Muffett alec.muffett at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 12:46:01 AEST 2020


On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 03:38 Alec Muffett, <alec.muffett at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 02:48 Larry McVoy, <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote.
>
> I thought that the whole point of "pg" was that it was a print system
> filter; that you integrated it into pipelines to throw proper formfeeds
> every 66 (etc) lines rather than print over the margins of DECWriters
> (etc), and that it wasn't really a tool for humans.
>

Okay, I just checked, that was "pr". My bad.
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