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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:06:56 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] too good to pass up (SRB Comments)
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i read this several weeks ago.  thanks for taking the time to document this.
i found it very instructive.

- erik

On Fri Apr 28 16:14:49 CDT 2006, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> The cleanup I did was relatively late in the game (1988) and was done
> to the Ninth Edition Unix sh.  My stak.c is available at my web page
> (www.collyer.net/who/geoff) but the fixes didn't get back into most
> shells (Cray may have picked them up).
>
> As I noted in the corresponding paper, A Partial Tour Through the UNIX
> Shell,
>
> 	The shell was the last program ported to the Interdata during
> 	the original UNIX port, due to the difficulty of getting the
> 	details of restarting faulting instructions just right, which
> 	is why the Seventh Edition (also known as ``V7'') distribution
> 	tape includes /bin/osh, the Sixth Edition shell.
>
>