From 4e702421e0ea9105a7f8c55282839c70fbe018f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:45:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added historical comment. --- README | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 99341d9..3992ad4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 -- 2.43.0