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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why Plan 9 uses $ifs instead of $IFS?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:28:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171017182829.GA29685@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHL7psFQ7P83jF1GSuatRRV4_a+YuphMzwuGMTx=pTscpGLJtg@mail.gmail.com>

Note that variables in the Mashey shell were single letters
in lower-case. $p was similar to $PATH in the Bourne shell.

Maybe Tom just split the difference. Have you asked him? :)

  Anthony



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-17 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-17 14:38 Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 14:39 ` Dan Cross
2017-10-17 15:05   ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 15:18     ` Charles Forsyth
2017-10-17 15:45       ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 16:04         ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 17:35           ` Dan Cross
2017-10-17 22:32           ` Tiago Natel
2017-10-17 16:00     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2017-10-17 16:22       ` Giacomo Tesio
2017-10-17 15:46 ` Teodoro Santoni
2017-10-17 18:28 ` Anthony Martin [this message]
2017-10-17 21:12   ` Jules Merit
2017-10-17 21:45     ` Jules Merit
2017-10-17 21:49       ` Jules Merit
2017-10-17 22:18         ` Charles Forsyth

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