Re: [9fans] Rc port.

[Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>]

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I take back the stuff where a directory can be a command  - it interacts weird with $path:
you’d do `..’ thinking it’s the same as `cd ..’, except it’s actually `cd /bin/..’.

> is there a buildable version of es any longer?

I just found
	http://wryun.github.io/es-shell/

I’ve never actually used es, this or any other version; this is the first I’ve heard you
couldn’t just use the original.

Hey, does anybody know if Tom Duff really invented process substitution? ( <{} )
There’s a comment in ‘A Retrospective’ (1978, I think - it’s in the 1978 BSTJ edition
`UNIX Time-Sharing System’; I have a tenth-anniversary reprint called ‘UNIX System
Readings And Applications’) by Dennis Ritchie about how a syntax for non-linear
pipelines has already been proposed. /dev/fd wouldn’t have existed yet, so does
anybody know what he’s referring to here?

Whoever it was, I bet it was Doug.

-Morrow


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