11 Feb
2020
11 Feb
'20
12:39 a.m.
Readline and job control were less compelling when you had multiple command
windows of editable typescript, which we all had with the Blit.
-rob
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:46 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Geoff Collyer wrote a nice paper about
experiences porting the 9th
Edition
shell to SunOS 3 on the 68k some years ago.
http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf
There is a copy of source code on his personal web page:
http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/
I wonder if any of the 8th edition shell changes you mentioned survived
in
that code?
It took less than 10 minutes to get it to compile under Linux. 'whatis'
is there, although the pretty printing of function code leaves
much to be desired.
Lacking is both readline and job control.
Arnold