Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:08:03 -0500
From:      Andrew Lankford <arlankfo@141.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An interesting man page from version 3 unix. 
Message-ID:  <200201292108437.SM01296@141.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:46:37 %2B1030." <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
>
>Single line per paragraph.
>
>On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 20:09:45 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>> In message <20020129145151.R37206@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
>
>I'm not sure how it worked, but I'd be surprised if there were a
>linker.  Typically you'd just enter the source into the interpreter
>and run it in that environment.  Remember this wasn't a systems
>programming language.

Ken Thompson's homepage has a link to the B manual:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/kbman.html

Section 10.0 has directions for "compiling" with /etc/bc and several
other steps for producing an executable from that.  Looks like the
proverbial sausage recipe.  Interesting, anyway.

>
>Greg
>--
>When re3lying to this mes sage, please take ca#@%!re n ot to mu@ilate the
>ori%inal texxt.
>For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html
>Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key
>See complete headers for address and phone numbers
>

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200201292108437.SM01296>