[TUHS] Anachronistic verisimilitude at cat-v.org

[Rob Pike via TUHS]

I don't own that page, but clearly those who do did not understand col(1).
I'll forward this to tuhs to see if anyone there knows who can fix it.

-rob


On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 10:58 PM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> The display on page 2 of
>  https://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf
> is explainable, but may be mystifying to readers who
> know backspace only as an editing convenience, not a
> printing action.
>
> Doug
>