[9fans] Re: rc

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@clark.net>]

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:29:16AM -0700, Randolph Fritz wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:21:58PM +0200, boyd.roberts@ca-indosuez.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > used the unix rc for years;  well written, solid as a rock.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've switched, myself.  I rewrote one script in rc and decided it was
> > time. :)  Now if only mk would become standard on Unix...
> > 
> Amusingly, Linux came out originally with RC as its shell, and that led
> me to the original Plan 9 papers, and from there to Plan 9.  I presume
> I'm the only one who got here _that_ route!?

that's not my recollection. in 1992 i talked michael k johnson into letting
me use his pre-1.0 linux box to port rc because -- as far as we could tell --
nobody'd done it.

there were some signal problems with my port (the awk script that munched some
system headers to generate a list of signals didn't work with linux's
odd header structure). and this port never made it off michael's box.

my memory's fading but i believe that bash and ash were installed on
michael's box at the time. bash development preceeded rc development by
about 18 months, as i recall.

erik