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From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:10:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160710211050.GA856565@lisa.in-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160710014108.926234422B@lignose.oclsc.org>

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 09:41:08PM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:

> I still habitually quote shell arguments containing ^,
> even though I haven't used a shell that required that
> since late 1984 (Rob had removed the special meaning
> from /bin/sh before I arrived at Bell Labs).

The 8th ed shell, derived from SVR2.  It underwent some
cleanup and got history,
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/#version8 
before rc came later.
The 8th ed changes didn't make it into SVR3, I wonder why.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-10 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-10  1:41 Norman Wilson
2016-07-10  1:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-10  1:52   ` John Cowan
2016-07-12 17:53   ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-12 18:05     ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-13  9:24       ` Wesley Parish
2016-07-13 10:09         ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-10 21:10 ` Sven Mascheck [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-08 17:36 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 14:52 Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29   ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49   ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09     ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16       ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 21:45         ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03   ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21     ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-08 11:25 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06   ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-02  0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02  1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-07  5:02   ` [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 13:43     ` Nemo
2016-07-07 14:11       ` John Cowan
2016-07-07 14:18       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-07 23:47         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08  5:40           ` scj
2016-07-08  7:06             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 11:09           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09  0:03             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-09 14:24               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 16:38                 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 11:20           ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 11:54             ` Nemo
2016-07-11 13:15             ` Joerg Schilling

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