Bug 181390

Summary: seq(1) first appeared in 8th UNIX
Product: Documentation Reporter: ksmakoto
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Warren Block <wblock>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: venture37, wblock
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
Attachments:
Description Flags
v8 not Plan 9
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v8 not Plan 9 none

Description ksmakoto 2013-08-19 05:00:00 UTC 
In HISTORY section of manual page of seq(1), "seq command first appeared in Plan 9 from Bell Labs.", but there is seq manual page in 8th UNIX (see: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/1/seq ).
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-08-19 05:25:01 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc

reclassify.
Comment 2 Frederic Culot freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-08-19 07:32:13 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-doc->culot

I'll take it.
Comment 3 Frederic Culot freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-08-19 07:40:12 UTC 
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Oops, wrong PR number, sorry
Comment 4 Sevan Janiyan 2016-08-12 14:49:52 UTC 
Created attachment 173596 [details]
v8 not Plan 9

Attached patch replaces references to Plan 9 with AT&T Research UNIX v8.
AT&T Research UNIX v8 is referenced verbatim as the At macro only recognises versions 1 to 7 as an option & mandoc reports a warning if v8 is specified.

See[1] for naming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix
Comment 5 Sevan Janiyan 2016-08-12 17:53:47 UTC 
Comment on attachment 173596 [details]
v8 not Plan 9

Index: usr.bin/seq/seq.1
===================================================================
--- usr.bin/seq/seq.1	(revision 304007)
+++ usr.bin/seq/seq.1	(working copy)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 10, 2013
+.Dd August 12, 2016
 .Dt SEQ 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
-command first appeared in
-.Tn "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" .
+command first appeared in Version\~8
+.At .
 A
 .Nm
 command appeared in
@@ -180,9 +180,4 @@
 to exponent representation very well.
 The
 .Nm
-command is not bug for bug compatible with the
-.Tn "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"
-or
-.Tn GNU
-versions of
-.Nm .
+command is not bug for bug compatible with other implementations.
Comment 6 Sevan Janiyan 2016-09-09 21:30:55 UTC 
Created attachment 174595 [details]
v8 not Plan 9
Comment 7 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-09-16 14:23:47 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: wblock
Date: Fri Sep 16 14:23:16 UTC 2016
New revision: 305887
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/305887

Log:
  Update history.  Patch supplied by Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk>.

  PR:		181390
  Submitted by:	ksmakoto@dd.iij4u.or.jp
  MFC after:	1 week

Changes:
  head/usr.bin/seq/seq.1
Comment 8 Warren Block freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-09-16 14:24:09 UTC 
Committed, thanks!