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On 10/7/22 10:23 AM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> There's the Wayback Machine, which tries to archive all I/net pages ever. |
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Sadly, there are a lot of pages that the Wayback Machine a.k.a. The |
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Internet Archive doesn't have archived. TIA / WM is a best effort |
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system and is a lot better than not having anything at all. |
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> I've never used it, but it should have copies of man pages going back, |
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> which would allow you to reconstruct the history of the commands. |
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I don't think that searching the internet for old copies of man pages is |
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going to be as productive as one might hope. First there's the SysV vs |
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BSD lineage to account for. Second there's all the other things that |
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don't fall in the SysV / BSD camps, mostly older. |
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I'd suggest inquiring on the TUHS or COFF mailing lists for pointers to |
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history of various commands. You may very well be pointed to archived |
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man pages. But you'll also have comments from people who maintained |
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commands and possibly added the option that you're most interested in. |
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Grant. . . . |
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