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From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck)
Subject: [TUHS] Command line post-arguments with #!
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:25:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215002510.GB9448@lisa.in-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111214235740.04D421DE369@lignose.oclsc.org>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:57:39PM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Sven Mascheck:
> 
>   Well the original implementation (post 7th ed and 4.0/4.1 BSD)
>   didn't allow arguments at all ;-)
> 
> ======
> 
> I believe you're mistaken.  All the implementations I've
> ever used allowed a single argument in the #! line,

With "original implementation (post 7th ed", I meant the undistributed
BellLabs-internal further development of 7th, the first system ever
to implement #!, leading to 8th ed, etc. (4BSD just incorporated this).
Not System V or other relatives, though.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 23:57 Norman Wilson
2011-12-15  0:25 ` Sven Mascheck [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-15  1:46 Norman Wilson
2011-12-15  3:07 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-12-08 23:08 [TUHS] speak.c, or sometimes the bits are under your nose Warren Toomey
2011-12-12  8:13 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2011-12-13  3:08   ` [TUHS] Command line post-arguments with #! Random832
2011-12-14 23:36     ` Sven Mascheck

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