From: Ingo Schwarze Subject: Re: correct ppt(6) history To: Jonathan Gray Cc: tech@openbsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 17:57:57 +0200 Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Gray wrote on Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 06:04:42PM +1000: > /usr/games/ppt appeared in v7 (without source or a manual page) > It was not in 32V. > > running v7 on simh: > # echo test | /usr/games/ppt > ___________ > | ooo .o | > | oo .o o| > | ooo . oo| > | ooo .o | > | o. o | > ___________ OK schwarze@. Optionally, you could credit Fabio Scotoni in the commit message. He sent essentially the same patch to tech@ on Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 18:47:06 +0200, together with these research results: :: ppt(6) seems to have had an interesting history. :: It seems to have been mentioned in the V1 manual as ppt(I), :: seemingly actually doing something related to paper tape. :: Then it vanished as far as I could tell. :: In V7, it seems to have found its current form as a game :: and got documented on bcd(6) (https://man.openbsd.org/UNIX-7/bcd.6); :: the bcd game itself shipped with V6 already, :: but had no man page. :: However, as far as I can tell, :: V7 shipped only with binaries for ppt(6), not with source code; :: 4.3BSD-Tahoe was technically the first source code version of it and :: presumably a rewrite. :: This patch adjusts the HISTORY section to match these findings. That posting aparently fell through the cracks. Fabio also suggested s/The/A/ three lines above, which i like because it's probably no longer the same program. But that's not a condition for the OK. Yours, Ingo > Index: games/ppt/ppt.6 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/games/ppt/ppt.6,v > diff -u -p -r1.2 ppt.6 > --- games/ppt/ppt.6 18 Nov 2014 02:25:12 -0000 1.2 > +++ games/ppt/ppt.6 31 Jul 2025 07:13:00 -0000 > @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ is printed for undecipherable input line > The > .Nm > command first appeared in > -.Bx 4.3 Tahoe . > +.At v7 . > The options > .Fl d > and