reason I asked was my memory was #! in 1978 or so. But that's now sounding like I compressed time a bit. On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 6:08 PM Clem Cole wrote: > FYI: Dennis did symlinks before Joy did and it was 4.1a where they first > show up in the BSD stream > As for shebang, the idiom was recognized by the shell in user space in 1.0 > BSD, when the precursor to cshell (the Berkeley shell) was released - but > it took a while to make it into the kernel as recognized look-a-side to be > more automatic. My >>memory<< is we had it in the 2BSD release, but it > might not have been added until 3BSD - look at the exec.c code in the BSD > kernels which frankly I'm too lazy tonight to do myself. > ᐧ > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 8:11 PM Ron Natalie wrote: > >> Symlinks came out in 4.1BSD (1981), I think. >> #! came out in 4. (1980 >> ) >> ------ Original Message ------ >> From: "ron minnich" >> To: "TUHS main list" >> Sent: 12/28/2020 7:30:47 PM >> Subject: [TUHS] Which years saw the introduction of (1) #! and (2) >> symbolic links >> >> >I think I remember but want to ask the experts. >> >>