From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:35:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aca57080-03cf-bf9d-957c-96bcbe79e675@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.158.1571666722.1308.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
On 10/21/19 9:05 AM, tuhs-request@minnie.tuhs.org wrote:
> Message: 17
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:10:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
> To:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
> Cc:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?
> Message-ID:<20191021121000.34E3B18C09F@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
>
> > From: Warren Toomey<wkt@tuhs.org>
>
> > But wasn't "chdir" built into the PDP-7 Unix shell?
>
> No. See "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System", in section "Process
> control".
>
> Also, the old 'cd' had different syntax than today's (since there was no notion
> of a pathname in the earliest Unix); it took instead a list of directories (e.g.
> "cd dd ken").
>
> Noel
>
Wanna have some fun?
chdir system
then try to find your way back 'home'...
v0's subdirectories suck.
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