Re: POSIX:2024

"lfs" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
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On Friday, April 18th, 2025 at 19:46, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
> It looks like we are down to:
> 
> admin: not in the book
> asa: not in the book
> c17: not in the book
> cflow: not in the book
> compress: not in the book
> crontab: not in the book
> cxref: not in the book
> delta: not in the book
> get: not in the book
> prs: not in the book
> rmdel: not in the book
> sact: not in the book
> sccs: not in the book
> unget: not in the book
> uucp: not in the book
> uustat: not in the book
> uux: not in the book
> val: not in the book
> what: not in the book
> write: not in the book
> 
> We actually have fcrontab and could create a symlink for crontab.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that compress (and uncompress) are the old names for gzip and gunzip.
> Files that used compress used a .Z extention.
> 
> sccs is an obsolete 'source code control system' that has been replaced by cvs,
> subversion, and git.

If you read the links (OK, make that SOME of the links!) behind the POSIX
page list, the suggestion is that all of these:

 delta, get, sccs, unget, what

are parts of the SCCS "framework".

> write is/was a terminal version of a 1-to-1 chat.  There was a writeall command that
> an admin could use to write to all terminals. 

Don't 'mesg', 'talk' and 'wall' (from util-linux) reproduce some of the functionality
of 'write' and  'writeall'?

Indeed, man pages on some systems still mention 'write', alongside 'mesg', 'talk'
and 'wall'.

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