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I was digging around the Unix history repo and found a BSD program cat3a [0] written by Bill Joy in 1977 to "cat to an adm3a quickly". It blanks the screen and
by mprovost 6y ago
I was digging around the Unix history repo and found a BSD program cat3a [0] written by Bill Joy in 1977 to "cat to an adm3a quickly". It blanks the screen and prints a file directly to the tty at 80 columns wide. Of course that's the terminal that he also wrote vi on - it has arrows on the hjkl keys.
[0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-Snapshot-Development/s6/cat3a.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-S...