Subject: Re: "yes" curiousity
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/23/1999 12:41:04
Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:27:50 +1000
> Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.ORG> wrote:
>
> > > How long has the -y option been there?
> >
> > The oldest thing I can find is Genix (BSD4.1), and it's there...
>
> Hm.. yes(1) appeared in 4.0.. maybe 4.1 introduced "fsck -y" :-)
>
> I'm mostly being silly now... but I do recall having to use that
> particular construct on some system that didn't have "-y" for fsck...
>
> ...I just can't remember which system that might have been... sigh.
Ahh, probably one of those funny SysV variants that some people are
forced to use every now and then :-)
Simon.