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From: drsalists@gmail.com (Dan Stromberg)
Subject: [TUHS] /usr/bin on V7?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:19:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGGBd_qQ_H4+Aza+Y8Q-zQLjSdmC6fEWh0fvzVLck0=XCUjgjw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110813132429.GF27179@lisa.in-ulm.de>

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Sven Mascheck <mascheck at in-ulm.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 07:53:44PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> > When I boot V7 in SIMH (pdp11), I get a root shell and a root filesystem,
> > but...  I see that /usr/bin is on root's default PATH, but I have no
> > /usr/bin directory.  Is there some way I could get a /usr/bin with
> > additional executables, to get the full flavor of V7?
>
> It's not unusual to have no /usr/bin at first,
> see "Setting Up Unix" in the 7th ed man, vol2b:
>

Shouldn't there be a tar command somewhere on the system, as installed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28file_format%29 indicates that V7 had a
tar format.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-14 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04  2:53 Dan Stromberg
2011-08-04  3:35 ` Larry McVoy
     [not found] ` <1312428286.54715.YahooMailClassic@web82402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
2011-08-04  4:51   ` Dan Stromberg
2011-08-04  8:29 ` Tim Newsham
2011-08-13 13:24 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-08-14 13:12   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-08-14 17:19   ` Dan Stromberg [this message]
2011-08-14 18:41     ` Sven Mascheck

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