Meg McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote: > So this makes this visual-font-edit-and-print, which seems to be more or less > what > it does. That is one of the longer command/program names from the days when > we > used ASCII characters to do online art ;-)
That seems correct. Such a long name might be explained by the fact that vfontedpr is most often called by vgrind than by the user himself. Doug McIlroy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hence the meaning of grind has been extended to refer to > long, slow, monotonous work. I suspect that's the intent > of "grind" in vgrind. You're probably right. In one of the source file (regexp.c), a comment explain the situation: "loop till expression string is exhausted (or at least pretty tired)". That's maybe why the manual page says: "grind nice listings of programms". Thanks for your explanations, Pierre-Jean.
