Readline and job control were less compelling when you had multiple command
windows of editable typescript, which we all had with the Blit.

-rob


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:46 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Geoff Collyer wrote a nice paper about experiences porting the 9th
> Edition
> > shell to SunOS 3 on the 68k some years ago.
> > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf
> >
> > There is a copy of source code on his personal web page:
> > http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/
> >
> > I wonder if any of the 8th edition shell changes you mentioned survived
> in
> > that code?
>
> It took less than 10 minutes to get it to compile under Linux. 'whatis'
> is there, although the pretty printing of function code leaves
> much to be desired.
>
> Lacking is both readline and job control.
>
> Arnold
>