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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=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 4172ba00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5DA629BD83; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:46:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FF19BCE8; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:46:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8D5429BCE8; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:46:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 865759BCDE for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:46:27 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 01AFkPoX001267 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:46:25 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 01AFkOSc001266; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202002101546.01AFkOSc001266@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:46:24 -0700 To: robpike@gmail.com, crossd@gmail.com References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] 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: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Dan Cross wrote: > Geoff Collyer wrote a nice paper about experiences porting the 9th Edition > shell to SunOS 3 on the 68k some years ago. > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf > > There is a copy of source code on his personal web page: > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/ > > I wonder if any of the 8th edition shell changes you mentioned survived in > that code? It took less than 10 minutes to get it to compile under Linux. 'whatis' is there, although the pretty printing of function code leaves much to be desired. Lacking is both readline and job control. Arnold