From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mascheck@in-ulm.de (Sven Mascheck)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 03:45:51 +0200
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
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Sven Mascheck wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:

> > > > The colon was introduced by AT&T around 1983.
> [...]
> I'm still confused (you're short with context): what does "introduced by AT&T" mean?

Ok, so they included csh with SysV, but SVR1 had no #! yet.
Less confused but still curious: what problems did show up with : then?

-Sven