From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 29 20:31:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC68937B400 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 05ADA78306; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:01:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:01:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Lankford Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An interesting man page from version 3 unix. Message-ID: <20020130150145.A94308@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200201292108437.SM01296@141.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200201292108437.SM01296@141.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 23:08:03 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > 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 Well, that's Dennis, not Ken. Ken just wrote the manual. > 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. I think a lot of UNIX was like that at the time. Greg -- 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