From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 9821 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2022 18:31:15 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Jul 2022 18:31:15 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E88240B8E; Thu, 7 Jul 2022 04:30:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18D54406F8 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2022 04:30:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id AABDA35E81C; Wed, 6 Jul 2022 11:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 11:30:38 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20220706183038.GE31996@mcvoy.com> References: <202207061816.266IGVAA002244@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202207061816.266IGVAA002244@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: 64YEH7CEVOWWAEGVD7LRBF33SH3X3WGW X-Message-ID-Hash: 64YEH7CEVOWWAEGVD7LRBF33SH3X3WGW X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Stuart Feldman's EFL List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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?