From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] shell PS1/PS2 which survive cut-paste
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:00:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201712060800.vB680wXG013646@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712061715470.99186@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > "#" as the root prompt predates # as the comment in the Bourne shell,
> > not to mention predating copy/paste entirely. (My understanding is that
> > the do-nothing command, ":" was used for comments. Talk about
> > minimalist!)
>
> And as a label for the dreaded "goto" command; it was a while before I
> realised that ":" in and of itself did bugger-all...
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
"goto" was in the V6 shell, I think (next to no experience with the V6
shell, and it was a LONG time ago anyway). But there never was a goto
in the V7 shell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 1:22 George Michaelson
2017-12-06 1:28 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-06 2:26 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-06 1:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-12-06 3:45 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-06 5:53 ` arnold
2017-12-06 6:01 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-06 15:14 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-06 6:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-06 8:00 ` arnold [this message]
2017-12-06 23:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-07 8:33 ` arnold
2017-12-07 21:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-08 6:12 ` arnold
2017-12-07 21:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-08 0:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 17:42 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-12-17 13:12 ` Don Hopkins
[not found] <mailman.402.1512547277.9955.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-12-06 11:02 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-06 12:00 ` arnold
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