Re: [9front] new rc parser: do we want it?

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On October 15, 2020 7:14:50 PM EDT, Roman Shaposhnik <roman@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
>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.ms¹ but it's dated 1993-06-19.
>> The title from that version is "Rc — 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.

everyone:

i screwed up and cc'd rob on my post (thought better of it and forwarded him the message, but forgot to remove the cc -- this mailing list silently drops messages from addresses that are not suscribed). please don't cc him on every single reply.

thanks,

sl