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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] ed.c on Unix v5
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:18:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151219161806.GA14625@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N4HL7PgqGSRo_EDRD1crGSdSG5KthLR1CHXZ7w01eXs-Q@mail.gmail.com>

Mark Longridge scripsit:

> There's no other trace of getpid in v5 as it's not in the v5 manual
> and there's no getpid.s in the disk image. I'm not sure if having
> getpid in v5 is anomalous or not, perhaps you or someone else can
> actually remember as I'm a johnny-come-lately to the party.  There's
> even some commands mentioned in the v4 manual that don't exist in the
> v5 disk image.

The manuals were versioned, but the tapes were not: each tape represents
a snapshot of the research system on that particular day, so what you find
there isn't closely correlated with any manual version.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter,
Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme):
One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically
Challenges poets who / Don't have the time.     --robison who's at texas dot net



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-19 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-17 15:13 Mark Longridge
2015-12-19  2:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-19  8:34   ` Mark Longridge
2015-12-19 14:57     ` Random832
2015-12-19 16:18     ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-12-19 17:02       ` Craig Lennox
2015-12-19 20:05         ` Random832
2015-12-19 18:36       ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-19 12:12 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-19 12:40 ` Mark Longridge
2015-12-19 13:56 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-19 15:10 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-19 15:22 ` Random832
2015-12-19 15:47 Noel Chiappa

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