Re: [9fans] unix rc homepage disapear

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

i put up a copy of byron's rc on sources. i tried to contact the author with
a propsed patch to handle utf-8 last year, but never received a reply.
i think byron's rc has become an orphan.

i put the copy i had of byron's rc on sources along with a utf-8 patch.
	/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/ ^(rc-1.7.1.tar.gz rc-1.7.1.utf-8.email)

the implementation of rc has some advantages over byron's copy.  byron uses arena
allocation and signal-handler gymnastics to handle interrupts.  rc's virtual
stack machine just pops the stack (automatically deallocating memory)
until an interactive frame is reached.  the latest maintainer of byron's rc
added some fluff (especially magic like $version) that is gratituous and 
confusing.

the language is different, too.  byron wanted if-then-else instead of if not.
he added ``(local-split-list) {} and here strings and does not have the "<>" redirection.
(which was added to rc later.)

- erik

On Thu May 11 14:02:23 CDT 2006, serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca wrote:
> I would like to know if someone here know where the homepage of the unix rc 
> shell (was: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~tjg/rc/release/) have been relocated ?
> 
> I have take a look at ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/rc/ but they do not 
> host the last version 1.7.1 .
> 
> thanks.