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In article <LENNOX.90S...@minilove.diag.stratus.com>,
len...@minilove.diag.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes:
 
|> According to the official USENET list of "Commonly asked UNIX weenie
|> questions", grep stands for g/<re>/p ("global"/"regular
|> expression"/"print") which is the way to do regexp seaches under ex
|> and vi.

I have an early UNIX command summary (August 1975) which gives:

GREP	Print all the lines in a file that satisfy a pattern of the
	kinf used in the editor ED

No mention of 'ex' or 'vi' there as they weren't around. (Was the name
'vi' chosen so people could say "You can't spell 'vile' without using
'vi'"?)

Also it gives:

DD	Physical file format translator, for exchanging data with foreign
	systems, especially OS/360

At this stage TAR did not exist instead there was a command:

TP	Manage file archives on magnetic tape or DECtape.

The hardware configuration is fun - DEC PDP11/40, 11/45 or 11/70 with at
least the following equipment:

	48K to 1M words of managed memory: parity not used,
	disk: RP03, RP04, RK05(preferably 2) or equivalent
	etc.

(An RK05 holds 5M)

Things weren't quite so large then!

	The resident code of UNIX occupies 20-22K depending on
	configuration.