From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso)
Subject: [TUHS] Dash options
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:22:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205132211.gYVHH%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171204215701.l9Pvr%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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Hello.
||On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 20:16:43 +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
||> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
||>> On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 21:51:13 -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote:
||>>> Does anybody know the history of dash options? Were they
||>>> a UNIX thing or did UNIX borrow them from something earlier?
||>>
||>> If you mean specificall the dash, I can't help much. But there were
||>> similar ideas elsewhere. UNIVAC EXEC-8 (for the 1108, late 1960s) had
||>> options that followed the command with a comma, like:
||>>
||>> @RUN,G GOPU,STANDARD,STANDARD
||>> @ADD,PL ASGDMS . ASSIGNIERT DATENBASIS
||>
||> "WEIßT DATENBASIS ZU" or "ZUWEISUNG DATENBASIS"
...
||>> @ASG,A PF. . PF IST PROGRAMM-FILE MIT GOPU
||>
||> "PF IST PROGRAMM-DATEI MIT GOPU" or so.
...
I have apologised for this brusque and rude tone in private.
Unfortunately Greg Lehey was the one who took up that thread.
Puh; he is also right correcting my statements, it should have
been "Weist Datenbasis zu" and "PF ist Programmdatei mit GOPU"
instead of what i falsely claimed.
|The question that should have been asked with mild interest and
|very kind should have been "Why has German been used to comment
|this code?" at first, i am afraid to realize.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-28 5:51 Jon Steinhart
2017-11-28 6:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-28 6:49 ` Andrew Warkentin
2017-11-28 11:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-28 11:49 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-28 12:46 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-28 18:01 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-11-28 19:36 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-28 20:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 6:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-29 19:16 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
[not found] ` <20171204054651.GA17671@eureka.lemis.com>
[not found] ` <20171204215701.l9Pvr%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
2017-12-05 13:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2017-12-07 5:15 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-28 13:19 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-28 18:20 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 21:56 ` Dave Horsfall
[not found] <mailman.376.1511899437.9955.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-11-28 21:30 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-29 1:23 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-29 1:37 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-29 2:22 ` Charles Anthony
2017-11-29 14:03 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-29 20:29 ` Charles Anthony
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