Added historical comment.

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@@ -6,13 +6,19 @@ This hex dumper was born because
        a) od octal format is appallingly ugly
        b) od -x ain't much better
        c) I needed to dump EBCDIC files from SNA sessions
-       d) I needed to dump single blocks of files
+       d) I needed to dump single blocks of files offset into the file.
 
 If any of these describes your universe, you'll like it too. The format
 resembles a CP/M or MS/DOS DEBUG dump screen. There is nothing UNIX-specific
 in the source, it should work OK under any C with a stdio.h library. And,
 in fact, I'm told it has been used under Windows NT.
 
+I wrote the original of this in 1983.  I'm not certain, but I think it
+may have been my very first C program, and I believe it was the first
+code I wrote under Unix (4.1BSD on a Vax).  It's certainly the oldest
+piece of C code I wrote that I still have source for.  It has held
+up remarkably well.
+
 You can find updates and other resources at:
 
         http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr