8 Dec
2017
8 Dec
'17
3:46 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Sigh; there's one in every bunch :-) OK, I never got to use the V7 shell
on V7, because I never got to use V7 on my machines (and the use of "goto"
had been thoroughly beaten out of me by then, so I never thought to try
it).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
Never got to
use the V7 shell; we were stuck with 11/40s[*] :-( It was
certainly in the V6 shell, hence by bafflement at why labels were of
the form ": blah" instead of the sensible "blah: "...
Come now, since then you've *never* used any kind of Bourne shell? BSD
on vax? SunOS? System III or System V on anything else? You've been
stuck in a time warp for 35 years? :-)