From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:09:43 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
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>
> It was in V6, and probably before that; it's truly ancient.
Yep - you see vestiges in
v0 - Dennis used an rc file call the parts of the B compiler. In V1's
man page, it's listed as a bug that
calling the B compiler via that script
should probably be a command.
Having exec call the shell if the file is executable and not a 4xx magic
number has not yet appeared, but its not that far off.
Clem
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2016-03-23 22:06 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 0:09 ` Clem Cole [this message]
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2016-03-23 19:20 Rocky Hotas
2016-03-23 19:30 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-23 19:38 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-23 19:53 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2016-03-23 19:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-23 21:14 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-03-24 9:59 ` Rocky Hotas
2016-03-24 6:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-25 1:19 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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