From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Question
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 19:50:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgwQ0r=eXMTYszXw+7ewqZ3ED5b69W9bbQ_G0EFScAfw2g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1610181560.23999.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
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Ah cithep, I remember you well!
-rob
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 7:46 PM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> Rob Pike, re the spelling corrector in V8 and later Research
> versions of sh:
>
> > That was done by Tom Duff, I believe before he came to Bell Labs. I might
> > have brought the idea with me from Toronto.
>
> Very likely, since you left it behind at Caltech as well; it was
> in sh on cithep (a hostname meaningless to many but rob will remember)
> when I arrived in 1980.
>
> It was in the version of p you left behind there as well.
>
> I can confirm that spname remained in the shell through V10
> (it's still in my copy), but it seems to have disappeared from p.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>
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2021-01-09 8:39 Norman Wilson
2021-01-09 8:50 ` Rob Pike [this message]
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2021-01-10 2:43 Rudi Blom
2021-01-05 4:36 Rudi Blom
2021-01-03 20:23 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-01-04 8:58 ` Ed Bradford
2021-01-04 9:07 ` Rob Pike
2021-01-04 9:12 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-04 14:11 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-04 15:39 ` John P. Linderman
2021-01-04 9:08 ` arnold
2021-01-03 10:13 Ed Bradford
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