On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:18 PM Clem Cole 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. ----------------- > 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:*.* > > 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 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 >> wrote: >> >>> Look for "comnd jsys" that exact spelling. Source code is around. >>> >>> >>>>