From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The 'usage: ...' message.
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 18:22:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240519172216.E554E2130A@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVSU4o5twt8EXZO6FAKdxMu19SOWLEyYRVa0yBM3BXAUA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Doug,
> Perhaps because it radically departs from Ken's "?" in qed/ed
That spread elsewhere. When PDP-7 Unix's cp.s is given an odd number of
arguments, leaving the last unpaired, it prints the argument followed by
‘ ?’. https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PDP7-Unix/cmd/cp.s
mes:
040000;077012
unbal:
lac name2
tad d4
dac 1f
lac d1
sys write; 1: 0; 4
lac d1
sys write; mes; 2
sys exit
--
Cheers, Ralph.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-19 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-19 14:03 [TUHS] The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...) Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-19 16:18 ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2024-05-19 16:21 ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-19 17:22 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2024-05-19 20:42 ` Dave Horsfall
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