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Subject: Re: [9fans] v8 shell
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:05:30 +0100
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> The biggest two things that V8 shell has that the v7 shell doesn't
> is shell functions and appending command lines to a history file.
> I'm sure there were other changes, but these are the one I miss.

you forget 'builtin' and 'whatis'.  as rob said 'programming the inputs'.

so the 8th Ed shell had functions:

     func()
     {

          ....

     }

$0 was the name of the script.  $* was the rest of the args to the function.
it return 0 or non zero iirc, but my 9th Ed manual is in .au

whatis & builtin were _essential_, so you could write a function like cd, so
it could use 'builtin' so you could have a function called 'cd' and it would do
what you wanted.

that sysVile 'type' thing was an abortion.

as Yes said:

    as one with the knowledge and power of the source

i was bored and had the source to sVr2 so i coded it up.

these links maybe interesting:

    http://www.std.org/~shand/jjm/mail/compact.html
    http://www.std.org/~shand/jjm/mail/flint.html

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-- Susan