These utilities were already part of 1BSD, and some authors are known.

All facts from the CSRG archive CD 1, also available from minnie.tuhs.org.
Feedback and OK sobrado@, ok jmc@.

Kirk McKusick writes:
"Bill usually used "Bill Joy" when listing author information. Only
occationally did he choose to use William Joy. So, I would recommend
using Bill Joy."

So i'm using that here even though some of the original files
related to this commit do contain the form "William Joy".

4 files changed, 34 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/expand/expand.1 b/usr.bin/expand/expand.1
index 98c9fbd0f30..db3922d21f6 100644
--- a/usr.bin/expand/expand.1
+++ b/usr.bin/expand/expand.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: expand.1,v 1.17 2010/11/07 08:05:56 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: expand.1,v 1.18 2011/12/28 01:52:33 schwarze Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: expand.1,v 1.3 1995/09/02 06:19:45 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)expand.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 7 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 28 2011 $
 .Dt EXPAND 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -147,5 +147,5 @@ flag.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm expand
-command appeared in
-.Bx 3.0 .
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 1 .
diff --git a/usr.bin/head/head.1 b/usr.bin/head/head.1
index 2bfd640d86c..8aaa0d6d772 100644
--- a/usr.bin/head/head.1
+++ b/usr.bin/head/head.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: head.1,v 1.18 2011/05/02 11:14:11 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: head.1,v 1.19 2011/12/28 01:52:33 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	from: @(#)head.1	6.6 (Berkeley) 7/24/91
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 2 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 28 2011 $
 .Dt HEAD 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -101,5 +101,8 @@ The historic command line syntax is supported by this implementation.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
-utility appeared in
-.Bx 3.0 .
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Bill Joy ,
+August 24, 1977.
diff --git a/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1 b/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1
index 8d1d467c1e8..5dce1294a65 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mkstr/mkstr.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mkstr.1,v 1.11 2007/08/06 19:16:06 sobrado Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mkstr.1,v 1.12 2011/12/28 01:52:33 schwarze Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: mkstr.1,v 1.3 1995/09/28 06:22:19 tls Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)mkstr.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 6 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 28 2011 $
 .Dt MKSTR 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -122,9 +122,16 @@ oops:
 .Xr xstr 1 ,
 .Xr lseek 2
 .Sh HISTORY
-.Nm mkstr
-appeared in
-.Bx 3.0 .
+The
+.Nm
+utility first appeared in
+.Bx 1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+.An Bill Joy
+and
+.An Chuck Haley ,
+1977.
 .Sh BUGS
 .Nm mkstr
 was intended for the limited architecture of the PDP 11 family.
diff --git a/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/vi.man/vi.1 b/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/vi.man/vi.1
index bc27fba68e2..db534a0052c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/vi.man/vi.1
+++ b/usr.bin/vi/docs/USD.doc/vi.man/vi.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: vi.1,v 1.54 2011/07/29 13:24:50 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: vi.1,v 1.55 2011/12/28 01:52:33 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1994
 .\"     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)vi.1	8.51 (Berkeley) 10/10/96
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 28 2011 $
 .Dt VI 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -2476,8 +2476,17 @@ That document differs from historical
 practice in several places; there are changes to be made on both sides.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
+.Nm ex
+editor first appeared in
+.Bx 1 .
+The
 .Nm nex Ns / Ns Nm nvi
 replacements for the
 .Nm ex Ns / Ns Nm vi
 editor first appeared in
 .Bx 4.4 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Bill Joy
+wrote the original version of
+.Nm ex
+in 1977.