deroff(1) first appeared outside of Bell Labs in PWB/UNIX 1.0

it did not start in the PWB group
"Lorinda also wrote deroff" Doug McIlroy
https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2015-September/007510.html

our version came from 4.4BSD after the Caldera relicense

with and ok schwarze@

diff --git a/usr.bin/deroff/deroff.1 b/usr.bin/deroff/deroff.1
index 3cc3911..7c2b4bd 100644 (file)
--- a/usr.bin/deroff/deroff.1
+++ b/usr.bin/deroff/deroff.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: deroff.1,v 1.10 2017/10/17 22:47:58 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: deroff.1,v 1.11 2022/08/03 07:38:09 jsg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"    @(#)deroff.1    8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 17 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 3 2022 $
 .Dt DEROFF 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -152,10 +152,17 @@ Normally, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above.
 .Xr man 7
 .Sh HISTORY
 .Nm
-first appeared in
-.At v7
-and has been available since
+first appeared outside of Bell Labs in PWB/UNIX 1.0.
+It did not appear in freely redistributable
+.Bx
+releases for licensing reasons.
+After Caldera relicensed early UNIX releases the
+.Bx 4.4
+version was added to
 .Ox 3.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Lorinda Cherry
+at the Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center.
 .Sh BUGS
 .Nm
 is not a complete troff interpreter,