From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3C7272CD for ; Sat, 25 May 2024 12:49:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477BE43682; Sat, 25 May 2024 20:49:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lechuck.jsg.id.au (jsg.id.au [193.114.144.202]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61D8943679 for ; Sat, 25 May 2024 20:48:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from largo.jsg.id.au (largo.jsg.id.au [192.168.1.43]) by lechuck.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id f8ec9811 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Sat, 25 May 2024 20:48:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (largo.jsg.id.au [local]) by largo.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id deac0b4a; Sat, 25 May 2024 20:48:54 +1000 (AEST) Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 20:48:54 +1000 From: Jonathan Gray To: "G. Branden Robinson" Message-ID: References: <20240525000348.hq5zvwm6x4evl44h@illithid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240525000348.hq5zvwm6x4evl44h@illithid> Message-ID-Hash: 426BBWTHTZO4TMWHJLSIRUBJMJK3NQY2 X-Message-ID-Hash: 426BBWTHTZO4TMWHJLSIRUBJMJK3NQY2 X-MailFrom: jsg@jsg.id.au X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Was curses ported to Seventh Edition Unix? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 07:03:48PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm finding it difficult to find any direct sources on the question in > the subject line. > > Does anyone here have any source material they can point me to > documenting the existence of a port of BSD curses to Unix Version 7? "In particular, the C shell, curses, termcap, vi and job control were ported back to Version 7 (and later System III) so that it was not unusual to find these features on otherwise pure Bell releases." from Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix_v2.pdf in some v7ish distributions: unisoft, xenix, nu machine, venix? https://bitsavers.org/pdf/codata/Unisoft_UNIX_Vol_1_Aug82.pdf pg 437 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_codataUnis_28082791/page/n435/mode/2up https://bitsavers.org/pdf/forwardTechnology/xenix/Xenix_System_Volume_2_Software_Development_1982.pdf pg 580 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_forwardTecstemVolume2SoftwareDevelopment1982_27714599/page/n579/mode/2up https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/UNIX_1.pdf pg 412 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_lmiLMIDocs_20873181/page/n411/mode/2up