From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9f3897940703131339m5e3cf9e7s2315d67a2b08f7d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:39:13 +0100 From: "=?UTF-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82_Lasek?=" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ? In-Reply-To: <509071940703131045y66df7f4cm8598229f15830725@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <509071940703131045y66df7f4cm8598229f15830725@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 21fca41c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/13/07, Anthony Sorace wrote: > On 3/13/07, C H Forsyth wrote: > > anyway, as to the archaic nature of shells. > > >i also find it bizarre that you can call rc "old cruft"... > > > > i supposed that was a reference to the fact that the style of these shells hasn't > > changed all that much since 1977. > > interestingly, the most different shell i've seen is Windows > PowerShell (formerly MSH, aka Monad). not to say i'm particularly a > fan, but the idea of an OO CLI is interesting. AFAIK isn't it the only "normal" official way of using the whole NT namespace? I always find the fact that NT uses Unix-style files (complete with ioctl :D) for device access but that part of namespace is usually hidden deep inside... Although what they are doing for Linux-based PalmOS replacement can rival it... (It includes completely different system - it has unix kernel but afaik uses many concepts alien to unix as base) -- Paul Lasek