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From:
Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Subject:
Re: units(1): history
To:
Evan Silberman <evan@jklol.net>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 1 Dec 2024 09:59:19 +1100

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On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 02:54:43PM -0800, Evan Silberman wrote:
> Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> wrote:
> > I dislike history sections, they are often verbose and wrong.
> > units was in v6.  NetBSD 1.0 implies it is/was in OpenBSD.
> 
> It seems to have been recent practice to add concise history sections
> when they are missing and someone is interested. I'm generally happy to
> read them. I'm not super experienced researching these things, I found a
> units utility in the v7 sources via TUHS browser but couldn't find it in
> v6.

https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/source/s2/units.c
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man6/units.6