From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:30:33 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:18 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> Sorry, hit return too soon. I remember an old AAUGN newsletter
> describing it. If I recall it was original done for kermit. The same
> idea is in tcsh also. Which came first, I don't remember. Cut/pasted from
> AAUGN Vol8 # 2
>
Frank da Cruz wrote a very nice reminiscence of the DECSYSTEM-20s at
Columbia that discusses the creation of CCMD as they decommissioned the
PDP-10s and switched to Unix on VAXen (and then Suns).
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html
When I was a student, we were still given accounts on the CUNIX cluster;
64-bit SPARC machines running Solaris at the time. At the time, the actress
Julia Styles was a student. One day, I was walking out of Mudd (the
engineering building) with a friend of mine who suddenly grabbed my arm and
said, "oh my god oh my god oh my god that's Julia Styles!" Being
perpetually ignorant of popular culture, I had no idea who she was
referring to confusedly thought she meant Julia Child, the late host of a
cooking show. "...But I thought she was dead?" "No, Dan, that's Julia
Child!" We decided to look up Ms Styles in the student directory, but being
a celebrity she wasn't listed. However, one could still discover her "UNI"
(login name) by grepping for her in the NIS password database. We did that
and sent her an email: "Christy was too embarrassed to say hi to you and
Dan thought you were Julia Child." Predictably, she did not respond. In
retrospect, I idly wonder how many such emails she got, most presumably of
the creepy variety, but we just thought ours was funny.
It appears that CUNIX still exists: https://cuit.columbia.edu/unix
- Dan C.
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> CCMD: A Version of COMND in C
>
> *Andrew Lowry*
> *Howard Kaye *
>
> Columbia University
>
> CCMD is a general parsing mechanism for developing User Interfaces to
> programs. It is based on the functionality of TOP5.20's COMND Jsys. CCMD
> allows a program to parse for various field types (file names, user names,
> dates and times, keywords, numbers, arbitrary text, tokens, *etc*.). It
> is meant to supply a homogeneous user interface across a variety of
> machines and operating systems for C programs. It currently runs under
> System V UNIX, 4.2/4.3 BSD, Ultrix 1.2/2.0, and MSDOS. The library defines
> various default actions (user settable), and allows field completion, help,
> file indirection, comments, *etc*. on a per field basis. Future plans
> include command line editing, command history, and ports to other operating
> systems (such as VMS).
>
> CCMD is available for anonymous FTP from
> [CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU]WS:<SOURCE.CCMD>*.*
>
> For further information, send mail to:
>
> info-ccmd-request@cu20b.columbia.edu
> seismo!columbia!cunixc!info-ccmd-request
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:03 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> https://github.com/PDP-10/sri-nic/blob/master/files/fs/c/ccmd/ccmdmd.unx
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 11:46 AM Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Look for "comnd jsys" that exact spelling. Source code is around.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
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2021-07-31 12:25 Michael Siegel
2021-07-31 13:05 ` Dan Halbert
2021-07-31 14:21 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-31 14:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-31 15:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 16:03 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:06 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 16:21 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:17 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:30 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2021-07-31 15:56 ` Paul Winalski
2021-07-31 16:19 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-01 17:44 ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 21:53 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-01 23:21 ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 23:36 ` John Cowan
2021-08-01 23:49 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-02 0:28 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-01 23:58 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 0:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-08-02 0:13 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02 0:18 ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 0:54 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02 1:04 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 1:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02 2:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02 2:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-02 17:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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2021-09-28 18:10 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-29 16:40 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-29 16:57 ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-30 17:31 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-29 23:10 ` Phil Budne
2021-08-02 17:37 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-08-02 18:52 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-02 20:59 ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06 ` Al Kossow
2021-08-02 21:14 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-02 21:13 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-01 16:51 ` Michael Siegel
2021-08-01 17:31 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 16:41 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 17:41 ` John Cowan
2021-07-31 17:30 ` Anthony Martin
2021-07-31 17:46 ` John Cowan
2021-07-31 18:56 ` Michael Siegel
2021-07-31 19:41 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 21:30 ` Michael Siegel
2021-08-01 17:48 ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 19:23 ` Richard Salz
2021-08-01 23:26 ` Chet Ramey
2021-07-31 19:20 ` [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces [ meta issues ] Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 21:06 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 21:32 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 21:37 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 21:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 22:10 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-31 22:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-31 22:20 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 23:26 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-31 23:41 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 22:04 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 22:13 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-31 22:14 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 22:17 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 22:16 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 22:20 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-31 16:27 [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-31 16:47 Ron Young
2021-08-02 2:34 ` Jim Carpenter
2021-08-02 2:38 ` Ron Young
2021-08-02 2:42 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-02 14:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02 18:15 ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-02 18:24 ` Warner Losh
2021-08-02 20:55 ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 21:25 ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 21:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 22:33 ` John Cowan
2021-08-03 0:21 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03 1:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03 3:21 ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-03 3:27 ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03 3:51 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03 7:19 ` arnold
2021-08-03 23:12 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-04 15:04 ` Paul Winalski
2021-08-03 15:01 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-03 17:13 ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-08-11 18:11 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-08-11 21:24 ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-08-03 19:12 Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-28 18:15 Noel Chiappa
2021-09-29 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2021-09-29 19:04 ` Dan Cross
2021-09-29 19:12 ` Larry McVoy
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