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   Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 15:45:23 JST Garrett Wollman

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   • Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:
   • Tim Chase

   @gumnos @joel rs(1) was part of a set of tools along with lam(1) and jot(1) that were posted to comp.sources.unix in ancient times and got included in 4BSD at some point. rs does the thing most commonly wanted in this scenario if you don't supply options.

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     Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 15:45:25 JST Tim Chase

     • Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

     @joel hah, I was the other side of the coin—I learned to use pr(1) (both for columnization and for printing on the lab line-printer) back in college (late 90s) and didn't learn about column(1) until maybe a decade ago.

     feld repeated this.