From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Subject: Re: watch(1) - periodically execute a command and display its output
To: Job Snijders <job@openbsd.org>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 15:13:41 +1000

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 08:00:37PM +0000, Job Snijders wrote:
> +.Sh HISTORY
> +A
> +.Nm
> +utility written by Tony Rems first appeared in the procps collection in 1991.

Perhaps drop the "first appeared" part.

Likely the comp.sources.unix posting predates procps.
https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1991-March/006041.html
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sources.unix/c/rlWJs7IQEqU/m/3VQq17aZ8twJ

> +This
> +.Nm
> +utility was originally named iwatch, a from-scratch rewrite for BSD by IIJ.

'for BSD' is not needed, original was for BSD as well