X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Ftset.1;h=faf1c4eb6a76686c482bcaf6db19c045fda77f7f;hp=a2926dba4ac4458dd4ae7b127f2f7b89b2f7371e;hb=91d451ffc473b358d8d74506d2da8871e44fbd7b;hpb=f259fb41d8f08b7e042eb928b839b59c8e39098c diff --git a/man/tset.1 b/man/tset.1 index a2926dba..faf1c4eb 100644 --- a/man/tset.1 +++ b/man/tset.1 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: tset.1,v 1.56 2021/06/17 21:26:02 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: tset.1,v 1.57 2021/07/10 22:50:45 tom Exp $ .TH @TSET@ 1 "" .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq .el .ds `` `` @@ -284,33 +284,24 @@ and that \fBcsh\fR users insert a backslash character (\*(``\e\*('') before any exclamation marks (\*(``!\*(''). .SH HISTORY .PP -A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 2BSD (April 1979), written by Kurt Shoens. +A \fBreset\fP command appeared in 1BSD (March 1978), written by Kurt Shoens. This program set the \fIerase\fP and \fIkill\fP characters to \fB^H\fP (backspace) and \fB@\fP respectively. Mark Horton improved that in 3BSD (October 1979), adding \fIintr\fP, \fIquit\fP, \fIstart\fP/\fIstop\fP and \fIeof\fP characters as well as changing the program to avoid modifying any user settings. +That version of \fBreset\fP did not use the termcap database. .PP -Later in 4.1BSD (December 1980), -Mark Horton added a call to the \fBtset\fP program -using the \fB\-I\fP and \fB\-Q\fP options, i.e., -using that to improve the terminal modes. -With those options, -that version of \fBreset\fP did not use the termcap database. -.PP -A separate \fBtset\fP command was provided in 2BSD by Eric Allman. -While the oldest published source (from 1979) -provides both \fBtset\fP and \fBreset\fP, -Allman's comments in the 2BSD source code indicate +A separate \fBtset\fP command was provided in 1BSD by Eric Allman, +using the termcap database. +Allman's comments in the source code indicate that he began work in October 1977, continuing development over the next few years. .PP -In September 1980, Eric Allman modified \fBtset\fP, -adding the code from the existing \*(``reset\*('' -feature when \fBtset\fP was invoked as \fBreset\fP. -Rather than simply copying the existing program, -in this merged version, \fBtset\fP used the termcap database -to do additional (re)initialization of the terminal. +According to comments in the source code, +the \fBtset\fP program was modified in September 1980, +to use logic copied from the 3BSD \*(``reset\*('' +when it was invoked as \fBreset\fP. This version appeared in 4.1cBSD, late in 1982. .PP Other developers (e.g., Keith Bostic and Jim Bloom)