From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] new rc parser: do we want it?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:11:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6706647c-f194-4d94-9b92-584999388f4e@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00009C5C-5080-47F6-BCBE-C9495B739AAB@cpan.org>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, at 9:44 PM, Romano wrote:
> There is a parenthetical comment on page 90 of "The UNIX Programming
> Environment":
> "(Originally, assignments anywhere in the command line were passed to
> the command, but this interfered with dd(1).)"
So it was regular, initially. By the time I started to use Plan 9 & P9P (2009 or so), it was broken. Rc was making errors of assignments after the command word *and* dd's syntax was different. But Rc wouldn't have been in TUPE, would it? I admit I never got around to reading it.
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2020-10-12 20:44 ` Romano
2020-10-15 10:11 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2020-10-15 12:11 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-10-15 16:41 ` Romano
2020-10-15 17:22 ` Anthony Martin
2020-10-15 23:14 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-10-15 23:32 ` Stanley Lieber
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2020-10-07 10:00 ` Ethan Gardener
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2020-10-07 4:46 ` ori
2020-10-07 13:06 ` kvik
2020-10-07 3:15 ori
2020-10-07 3:54 ` [9front] " sl
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