Re: Operator, Information, give me geom.ctl on the line

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Hi,

> On 28 Jul 2026, at 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> [=E2=80=A6]
> All the way back to 386BSD's /etc/MAKEDEV script, and probably prior =
to
> that, group operator  [etc]

I suspect this may originate with UTS on IBM mainframes in the early =
80s.

> Poul-Henning
>=20
> (Who makes absolutely no apologies for the Subject line.)

:-)

> --=20
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> [email protected]         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by =
incompetence.
>=20


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