Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 11:03:31 -0700 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh sh.1 Message-ID: <20020526110330.A15389@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020526165618.C6316@chiark.greenend.org.uk>; from dot@dotat.at on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:56:18PM %2B0100 References: <200205251218.g4PCIRf58586@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020526165618.C6316@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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* From Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:18:27AM -0700, Tim J. Robbins wrote: > > > > sh appeared in Version 1, not System V.1. > > Should there be a note that before the 7th Edition the shell wasn't > a Bourne shell? It might be more appropriate to say "A bourne shell first appeared as .Nm in ..." than to say explicitly that before then it wasn't. Unless when saying that '|' is the way to pipe data between commands, we want to mention that it used to be '^'... We should talk about what we have, and when it came in to being, not what it was before. Maybe I'm being too much of a pedant, though :) Thanks. -- J. Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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