* [pups] S.R.Bourne and the shell
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@ 2005-05-19 10:11 ` Andrew Lynch
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From: Andrew Lynch @ 2005-05-19 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
On May 19, 11:16pm, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> I've found a copy of the book "The Unix System" and I've had the
> paper "An Introduction to the UNIX Shell" for 20 years, but I thought
> I'd seen a slim book by S.R.Bourne called "The UNIX Shell" or something
> of the sort. However, Google, Bibliofind, etc have turned up nothing;
> has anyone seen this, or is my memory at fault once more?
Are you possibly thinking of an article that appeared in the 1978 Bell System
Technical Journal?
From the bibliography in "The UNIX System":
Bourne, S. R. 1978. "UNIX Time-Sharing System: The UNIX Shell". Bell Sys.
Tech. J. 57(6) 1971-90.
The issues of BSTJ that I have seen could be described as slim books - roughly
A5 paperback, around 200 pages.
This article is supposed to have also appeared in Volume 2 of the UNIX
Programmer's Manual - which would imply that it is the same as "An Introduction
to the UNIX Shell" (which is what my 7th Ed Manual contains).
Andrew.
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* [pups] S.R.Bourne and the shell
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@ 2005-05-23 7:11 ` Pete Turnbull
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From: Pete Turnbull @ 2005-05-23 7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
On May 19 2005, 12:11, Andrew Lynch wrote:
> On May 19, 11:16pm, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >
> > I've found a copy of the book "The Unix System" and I've had the
> > paper "An Introduction to the UNIX Shell" for 20 years, but I
thought
> > I'd seen a slim book by S.R.Bourne called "The UNIX Shell" or
something
> > of the sort. However, Google, Bibliofind, etc have turned up
nothing;
> > has anyone seen this, or is my memory at fault once more?
>
> Are you possibly thinking of an article that appeared in the 1978
Bell System
> Technical Journal?
I probably am...
> This article is supposed to have also appeared in Volume 2 of the
UNIX
> Programmer's Manual - which would imply that it is the same as "An
Introduction
> to the UNIX Shell" (which is what my 7th Ed Manual contains).
Yes, that's in mine too. I just thought the "slim book" had slightly
more in it, but perhaps that's because it has smaller pages, and
therefore the artice is spread over more of them. I think our library
has a copy of the BSTJ, so I can check.
Someone emailed me off-list with a URL for an HTML-ised version;
thanks, but I have a real 7th Edition Manual with that paper, as well
as the troff source on my (original) 7th Edition distro.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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* [pups] S.R.Bourne and the shell
@ 2005-05-19 22:16 Pete Turnbull
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From: Pete Turnbull @ 2005-05-19 22:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
I've found a copy of the book "The Unix System" and I've had the
paper "An Introduction to the UNIX Shell" for 20 years, but I thought
I'd seen a slim book by S.R.Bourne called "The UNIX Shell" or something
of the sort. However, Google, Bibliofind, etc have turned up nothing;
has anyone seen this, or is my memory at fault once more?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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