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
next prev 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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