Re: [9fans] unix rc homepage disapear

[serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca (Serge Gagnon)]

>>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, "erik" == erik quanstrom wrote:

  erik> i put up a copy of byron's rc on sources.

For now, I put a copy on 
ftp://quenix2.dyndns.org/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rc-1.7.1.tar.gz for the 
FreeBSD rc's ports. (just for the record)

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

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

Yesterday, I read the p9p rc man page and try it. I think that these little 
things are missing for me to use this shell as login shell:
- no history mechanism, like history(1) {- -p -- --p) that record commands 
in a $history file other than " "", wintext. This doesn't work in console 
mode.
- CTRL+f doesn't work in console mode (that's probably not rc's problem but 
keyboard setting in console mode).

For the rest, it look great.

I think that I'll try to do a fork of just the p9p rc with byron's history.
I'm not a programmer and I'll return to school Monday and I'll be very 
busy. so it could just be a vaporware.
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