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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] POSIXy V7 sh
Date: Fri,  7 Nov 2003 01:32:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9af66bec68a3e814a71c6f57cbb77aa1@collyer.net> (raw)

This isn't directly Plan 9 related, but may be of interest
to this audience.  Brantley Coile asked me a few months back
if I had a simple (Unixy) shell for modern Unixes, which prompted me
to retrofit the memory-management, directory-reading and a few other
changes described in `A Partial Tour Through the UNIX Shell' into
the V7 shell (now that it's freely available courtesy of SCO).
It should run on POSIXy systems and been run under APE and on the
BSDs and Linux on x86 PCs without trouble.  Among its other features,
it lacks the GNU readline library, so what you type is what you get.
It's also smaller than even rc (at least on Plan 9):

	; size /bin/v7sh /bin/rc
	69771t + 13580d + 5756b = 89107	/bin/v7sh
	81881t + 10268d + 13528b = 105677	/bin/rc

You can find it at http://www.collyer.net/~geoff/v7sh.tar.


             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-07  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-07  9:32 Geoff Collyer [this message]
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
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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