From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: C H Forsyth Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:40:16 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 219b3290-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> If the Inferno people had decided to 'update' mash instead of writing sh(1) >for the record, i believe that i wrote the inferno shell before mash was written nothing to do with 9fans, but since the matter has surfaced here: the only real trouble with mash for Vita Nuova at the time was that the group from which we acquired Inferno in its fire sale was not really on speaking terms with the group that by then contained its author (brucee), and rather than creating an incompatible variant of mash, we had roger continue work on his, since we needed something more than the original Inferno sh (or felt we did). despite brucee's own efforts we never did get even as far as a talk about talks with the right people in the other groups involved. 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.