Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: gres for BSD
Summary: origins of gres
Message-ID: <668@mks.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 22:28:59 GMT
References: <8413@louie.udel.EDU> <175@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <175@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl>, willy@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Willy Konijnenberg) writes:
> In article <8413@louie.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
> >BTW, where did gres come from?  Was it standard on Version 7?
> I never heard of it before MINIX, but I recently found that it is also
> in the MKS toolkit, a collection of unixy programs on MS-DOS.
> Now was MINIX gres inspired by MKS, or the other way around?

I asked around here to see if anyone knew of this.  The concensus is
that gres is older than sed, which pretty much replaces it.  It may
never have been part of the Unix distribution, although we do have a man
page somewhere around here for it.  It doesn't seem to get much use, but
for simple things I find gres commands easier to type than sed commands. 
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     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc.               UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels
   35 King St. North                             BIX: join mks
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     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc.               UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels
   35 King St. North                             BIX: join mks
Waterloo, Ontario  N2J 2W9                  CompuServe: 73260,1043