Re: [TUHS] run commands at login in v6 and stty

[Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>]

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Cpp was definitely in v6, and I'm pretty sure it was in earlier editions.
The first pass of the C compiler would invoke it if the first byte of the
source file was a '#'. However, the early version only did #define and
#include. It was rewritten for v7, I believe, introducing the catastrophe
of #ifdef, while the existential horror of #if was later still, foisted on
us by someone not in Research.

-rob


On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 9:53 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

>
> Some thoughts ..
>
> 1.) the precursor to the csh is the newshell in {1}BSD.  It's Joy's hack
> to the Thompson shell and you might find it more usable.
> 2.) PWB 1.0 is based on a V6 kernel and has the Mashey Shell, which is in
> C and predates Bourne's  It might also be easier for you to use.
> 3.) srb wrote his shell during the transition between V6, TS and V7.   At
> least one version ran on the V6++ system we had at CMU, but of course as
> pointed out, it is written in Bourne-Gol. And I'm pretty sure his CPP
> definitions will need at least a gen2 /lib/cpp implementation***  However,
> Steve was also doing it at the time when the compiler was being updated.
> FWIW: We also had the 'Typesetter C' running on our V6 system in those
> days.  So my >>guess<< is that v6 + Typesetter C - will compile the V7
> shell.
>
> Clem
>
>
>
> *** Rob or Steve Johnson - maybe remembers when cpp first appeared.  I
> don't remember if it was part of V5 or not - those bits have faded from my
> brain.  What I do remember is there were a couple of different cpp's early
> on.  The first one was pretty crude by today's standards, albeit it was a
> cool idea and it was the one thing I really liked about C over BLISS early
> on [BLISS had Macros, which was cool aalso, but cpp could do things Bliss
> could not].
>

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