2025-12-23 23:46 UTC
@CoolSWEng@mastodon.acm.org That is awesome! The conf function in cp.c is fascinating. Didn't they have printf back then?
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Research-V4-Snapshot-Development/usr/source/s1/cp.c
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@CoolSWEng@mastodon.acm.org 2025-12-24 08:12
@jaj@mastodon.social At the time C was so new that they were experimenting with its facilities and libraries. According to https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/man3.html printf was indeed first documented in V4; see the man page https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v4man/v4man.pdf#page=193.