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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Stuart Feldman's EFL
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 11:30:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220706183038.GE31996@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202207061816.266IGVAA002244@freefriends.org>

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:16:31PM -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> EFL was definitely a part of BSD Unix.  But I don't see it in the V7
> stuff in the TUHS archives.  When did it first appear?  Was it part
> of 32V and I should look there?
> 
> It is definitely in the V8 and V10 stuff.
> 
> Did anyone actually use it?  I have the feeling that ratfor had already
> caught on and spread far, and that it met people's needs, and so
> EFL didn't really catch on that much, even though it provided more
> features on top of Fortran.

The only thing I see in tuhs.org:/var/www that is related is

./TUHS/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/Unix_4.0/Volume_1/D.2.3_EFL.pdf

but I'm still learning the layout on tuhs.org, might be somewhere else?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-06 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-06 18:16 [TUHS] " arnold
2022-07-06 18:30 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-07-07  6:20   ` [TUHS] " arnold
2022-07-06 19:13 ` Clem Cole
2022-07-06 23:53 ` Skip Tavakkolian

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