This thread brings to mind a wonderful saying which I just saw in another forum:
"A wise man speaks when he feels he has something to say - a fool speaks when
he feels he has to say something."
And to reply in advance to the 'but I did't realize so many other people had
sent in replies' - try scanning your emailbox before replying to messages to a
large list.
S/N is to be hallowed.
Noel
This book can apparently be "borrowed" from the Internet Archive. I'm not
sure how they do that, haven't tried to, I just see it says you need to
log in to borrow the book for 14 days.
https://archive.org/details/unixprimerplus00wait
--Pat.
OK, something that's not a ping :-)
I'm trying to track down the author of a cartoon that I'd like to use
in my book so that I can try to get permission. Last one that I need!
It's a cartoon that I only have on paper and don't know where it came
from. It has two frames, then and now, the first with a bunch of
cavemen grunting awk, grep, mkdir, yank, the second with a bunch of
people sitting at computers uttering the same.
I recently stumbled upon something that said that these were in a book
called "UNIX Primer PLUS". Anybody have a copy of that? If so, can
you please check to see if that's the original or whether they got it
from somewhere else?
Thanks,
Jon
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
> "taperead" in http://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils can extract files
> from a tape image.
The format is very simple: a 32-bit little-endian record length,
followed by that many bytes, followed by the length again for
integrity checking. A record length of zero is a file mark.
-- Richard
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
I noticed that the TUHS archive does not include a 4.1BSD distribution.
Also, while poking around the net, I've found a number of purported
tape images of 4.1BSD dated 7/10/1981 that look to me to a little sketchy,
since most contain files dated well into 1982.
So it appears to me that 4.1BSD is semi-lost.
While googling all this, I discovered that the School of Computer Science
and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin has an online archive catalog
which lists a couple of 4.1BSD distribution tapes in the "John Gabriel Byrne
Computer Science Collection".
https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/
Perhaps someone from TUHS who lives near Dublin could investigate and
see if images can be made of these tapes?