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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] POSIXy V7 sh
Date: Sun,  9 Nov 2003 20:09:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53aed08b5e409a7f3cb345128131b208@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311100303.hAA33e5G008293@ducky.net>

I should perhaps clarify that this is a V7 sh, from Steve Bourne, not
a clone, with minor additions, that should run on most POSIX-like
systems; it is not a POSIX-compliant sh.

Its great virtues are simplicity and predictability, unlike most
modern Lunix shells.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-10  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-07  9:32 Geoff Collyer
2003-11-07 14:15 ` a
2003-11-10  0:20 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-10  3:03   ` Mike Haertel
2003-11-10  3:01     ` Taj Khattra
2003-11-10  4:09     ` Geoff Collyer [this message]
2003-11-10 11:48       ` Brantley Coile
2003-11-10 16:34         ` Rob Pike
2003-11-10 18:34           ` Dan Cross
2003-11-11  9:34       ` Sven Mascheck
2003-11-11  1:38 Dennis Ritchie
2003-11-11  2:19 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-11  9:09 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-12 11:14 ` Boyd Roberts
2003-11-12 13:08   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-11-12 19:55     ` Steve Kilbane

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