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From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:38:58 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1101281335120.22444@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.01.1101171232320.22444@t1.m.reedmedia.net>

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> It was introduced into BSD by April 1981. For 2BSD (2.8) it was added by 
> Dec. 16, 1981 when built with MENLO_SCRIPT defined (but I don't see that 
> documented or defined).

Doing some related research, I noticed I had written in my notes (maybe 
over a year ago) that Robert Elz added #! to BSD. Here is the email 
message with the background:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/11/10/msg002390.html



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-28 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-16  8:43 Warren Toomey
2011-01-16  9:55 ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 13:20   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 17:17     ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 19:19       ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 20:17         ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 20:42           ` Larry McVoy
2011-01-16 21:08           ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 21:37             ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 16:35               ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 20:47                 ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 10:09           ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-16 10:53 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-01-17 16:25   ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 19:02 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:51   ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 22:41     ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:58   ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-19  4:10   ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-19 20:35     ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-20  4:09       ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-28 19:38   ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]
2011-01-30 15:05     ` Sven Mascheck

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