From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 14:15:10 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob' In-Reply-To: References: <20170707165546.D887418C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <1499533417.2189045.1034525560.6AB54F6F@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: I was merely pointing out that the term 'glob' as a shortened form of 'global' predates UNIX, as does the concept of simple wildcard matching that was later expanded into regular expression syntax. -Paul W. On 7/8/17, Arthur Krewat wrote: > You are correct. Woops. > > Sorry I left that part out. Was just replying to whoever said there was > a GLOB in TOPS-10. > > > On 7/8/2017 1:03 PM, Random832 wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017, at 19:00, Arthur Krewat wrote: >>> From GLOB.MAC, TOPS-10 circa 1988 (not sure what version that is): >>> >>> TITLE GLOB -- GLOBAL CROSS-REFERENCE DIRECTORY LISTING >>> >>> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/cgi-bin/searchbyname?name=glob.mac >>> >>> Earliest version in that archive, 7-19-1975 but there are copyright >>> dates going back to 1968 >>> >>> ;COPYRIGHT 1968,1969,1970,1971,1972, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP., MAYNARD, >>> MASS. >> Looking at the help file, it looks like this is more about global >> symbols in object files (i.e. something analogous to nm) >> >> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/red405a2/11/unsupported/glob.hlp.html >> >> The list of options matches the ones in swtab/sw1tab in the code, so >> this is the same tool. >> > >