Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 12/15/22 16:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, named 
> 'prehistory', which covers exactly that.  It is connected the the master branch 
> in a backwards-time-travel way, so that the tip of the branch is the oldest man 
> pages that one can find --that is, 1.0--.
>
> This is not a stable branch, and may be rebased in the future to fill gaps (such 
> as man-pages-1.1, which is missing), which is the reason I didn't create tags 
> for the versions.
>
> Anyone curious about the old pages like me, can now use all the power of git(1) 
> for that purpose.  Below you can see a glance of what is now available through git.
>
> To avoid misattributing authorship of changes, I attributed them to time itself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> P.S.:  Andries, do you know anything about 1.1?  There's the announce in your 
> ftp server, but the tarball is missing.

By ftp server, of course I meant the ftpdocs dir on your website:

<https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/ftpdocs/linux-local/manpages.archive/>

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