On 04/10/19 09:59, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
> Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/04/2019, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
>>> Just checking you are all still out there :-) Cheers, Warren
>> Well, this is not "Forever September"? #6-) I just finished reading a
>> fascinating article on Inferno and was most amused by the comment in
>> Rob Pike's biblio note at the end. N.
> So, please share article link and comment with the list? Thanks, Arnold
Apologies -- I found it here:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6772868/ Bell Labs Tech. J., Vol.
2, Iss. 1, 1997 (or here
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bltj.2028 but there must
an open version available by now).
Pike wrote: "He has never written a program that uses cursor addressing."
N.
So, a while back I mentioned that I'd done tweaked versions of 'cp', 'mv',
'chmod' etc for V6 which retained the original modified date of a file (when
the actual contents were not changed). I had some requests for those versions,
which I have finally got around to checking and uploading (along with 'mvall',
which for some reason V6 didn't have). I've added them to a couple of my V6
pages:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/V6Unix.html#mvallhttp://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/ImprovingV6.html#FileWrite
Note (per the page) that the latter group all require the smdate() system
call, which was commented out in 'vanilla' V6 (because using it confused the
backup system); the page gives instructions on how to turn it back on.
Noel
