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From: Sven Mascheck <mascheck@in-ulm.de>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] POSIXy V7 sh
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:34:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <boougl$6c6$1@news.in-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53aed08b5e409a7f3cb345128131b208@collyer.net>

Geoff Collyer wrote:

>> http://www.collyer.net/~geoff/v7sh.tar

Now this is great news.  (I for myself gave up somewhere at the
directory-reading code due to lack of time and experience.)

> I should perhaps clarify that this is a V7 sh, from Steve Bourne,
> not a clone [...]

('79) ...whereas its direct successors (usually only available on
commercial dialects) are usually still called "traditional" Bourne
shells; Steve Bourne had worked on this shell until SVR2 ('84).

You can see a history about added features, i.e., the development
of the traditional Bourne shell (and its various vendor variants)
until SVR4.2 ('92) on <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/>.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11  9:34 UTC|newest]

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