[an1sotropy]

Looking at the last line:

   Authors: 1990 Ken Stauffer, 2022 raf <[e-mail]>

Has this been around since 1990?

I’m bummed I didn’t know about it. The variety of output options is amazing.

[raforg]

It was around in 1990. Then as far as I know, it disappeared, until I stumbled across it in my old comp.cources.unix file in an old archive tarball, and had to bring it back to life and up to date.

[an1sotropy]

Thank you very much for doing that!

Do you happen to know why it was called rawhide? I'm very curious.

[raforg]

Sorry, I don't.

[raforg]

But I like to think it refers to making the raw C API available on the command line.

[Fnoord]

Yes, it has been. I've used it in the past (end of 90s) but I don't remember what for. Might've been some abacadabra like dd and fdisk on non-x86 or *BSD? I'm not sure. I actually forgot the name of this application, but now that I see it, I immediately recognized it.

Btw, its not related to RedHat or Fedora Rawhide.

[emmelaich]

Holy shit, that's a blast from the past.

Hello Robert if you're reading this.

Others, have a look at libslack too.