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On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:23 AM Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
>
> Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> once said:
> > rc's v10 online man page refers to it as "the plan 9 shell." my print
> > edition is in storage, but i don't think it mentioned plan 9. the
> > online version may represent a later extraction from the labs' running
> > system. plan 9 was percolating at least as early as 1988. it's unclear
> > exactly when rc was first written, but based on the timeline of
> > releases it first shipped in v10.
>
> The v10 tree on TUHS has /vol2/rc/rc.ms=C2=B9 but it's dated 1993-06-19.
> The title from that version is "Rc =E2=80=94 A shell for Plan 9 and UNIX"=
.
>
> I don't have a copy of the printed v10 manual to check what it
> was in 1989/1990. I'd be curious to see what yours says.

My printed Second Edition manual says:

NAME
   rc, cd, eval, exec... - command language
SYNOPSIS
   rc ...
DESCRIPTION
   Rc is the Plan 9 shell.

Thanks,
Roman.

Thanks,
Roman.