From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:09:43 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc In-Reply-To: <20160323220652.36A9618C0E8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20160323220652.36A9618C0E8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > 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​ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: