From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 316cee4e for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 56B979BA01; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:31:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C4B9B925; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:31:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0D59B9B925; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:31:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7F319B923 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:31:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id 9907E18C083; Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:31:33 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20191027213133.9907E18C083@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:31:33 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Charles Anthony > /home/CAnthony I think it was >user_dir_dir>Group>User, wasn't it? I seem to remember my homedir on MIT-Multics was >udd>CSR>JNChiappa? And I wonder if the 'dd' directory on PDP-7 Unix owe anything to 'udd'? Getting back to the original query, I'm wondering if '/' was picked as it wasn't shifted, unlike '>'? Noel