On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Greywolf wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> # On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:17:34AM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> # > 
> # > dd of=file_to_truncate bs=1 seek=new_size count=1 </dev/null
> 
> Greg, I believe that the skip= parameter has been there for quite some
> time... 4.3 is verifiable; the man page which states "4th Berkeley
> Distribution" implies as far back as 4.0 (or 4.1 if there was no 4.0);
> I'm willing to place a bet on SVR0.
> 
> ...can anyone else confirm its existence in V7, which would sub-
> stantially predate either of the above?

If I'm following this discussion (if not forgive me, I'm only beginning to
ingest caffeine now), then from

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Unix+Seventh+Edition&format=html

it sure looks like it.
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