Unfortunately, the Berkeley manual contains "AUTHOR" entries only for
things hacked at Berkeley which is unfortunate since BTL and a number
of universities made fundamental contributions (U. of Sydney and U. of
Toronto in particular).
For example, relatively uninteresting programs like vfontinfo and
vgrind are proudly AUTHOR'ed. The vtroff program itself was written at
Toronto by Mark Tilson, but his name has even been removed from the
source listing! (It was there in an V6 version I used in grad school)
Additional work on vtroff was done at the University of Purdue.
I'm glad someone mentioned the elimination of authors from the Berkeley
UNIX manual. I've never heard anyone mention this except to complain
about it. Is anyone on the Berkeley UNIX project listening? (They might
also restore the dates of when each document was last modified.)
-Greg
Bill Reeves most of vcat, and the font editor
Tom Duff the inner loop of vcat, in pdp11 assembler
Rob Pike the (unreleased) precursor to vcat (called vd)
Mike Tilson miscellaneous optimizations
The distributed source for vcat had Reeves, Pike, Tilson in the heading,
and Duff in the lone .s file. My thanks to Rob Pike for refreshing my
memory on this.
Is anybody from Berkeley listening? Could you perhaps dig out the
U of T licence you signed years ago and re-read the part about being
required to give proper credit?