Re: [TUHS] Dash options

Hello. ||On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 20:16:43 +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: ||> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote: ||>> On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 21:51:13 -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote: ||>>> Does anybody know the history of dash options? Were they ||>>> a UNIX thing or did UNIX borrow them from something earlier? ||>> ||>> If you mean specificall the dash, I can't help much. But there were ||>> similar ideas elsewhere. UNIVAC EXEC-8 (for the 1108, late 1960s) had ||>> options that followed the command with a comma, like: ||>> ||>> @RUN,G GOPU,STANDARD,STANDARD ||>> @ADD,PL ASGDMS . ASSIGNIERT DATENBASIS ||> ||> "WEIßT DATENBASIS ZU" or "ZUWEISUNG DATENBASIS" ... ||>> @ASG,A PF. . PF IST PROGRAMM-FILE MIT GOPU ||> ||> "PF IST PROGRAMM-DATEI MIT GOPU" or so. ... I have apologised for this brusque and rude tone in private. Unfortunately Greg Lehey was the one who took up that thread. Puh; he is also right correcting my statements, it should have been "Weist Datenbasis zu" and "PF ist Programmdatei mit GOPU" instead of what i falsely claimed. |The question that should have been asked with mild interest and |very kind should have been "Why has German been used to comment |this code?" at first, i am afraid to realize. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)