[TUHS] Of flags and keyletters

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-03-01T04:21:44+1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Just recollecting old memories: why did AT&T refer to "flags" as
> "keyletters" in its SysV documentation?  Some sort of denial of
> Ed5/6/7/BSD's very existence?

Not exactly the same thing, but Lesk used the term to characterize the
format specifiers in the Seventh Edition Volume 2 paper on tbl(1).

Regards,
Branden
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