28 Feb
2022
28 Feb
'22
2:32 a.m.
On 26.02.2022 22:45, Brian Walden wrote:
[...] Sometimes you could find an early version of
the
Bourne shell in /bin/nsh (new shell) in v6.
The 7th edition release of the Bourne shell contains a
char version[] = "\nVERSION sys137 DATE 1978 Nov 6 14:29:22\n" in msg.c
which was unfortunately not used, remained unchanged in descendants, and got removed with
SVR2.
I often wondered about the versions bevore "sys137". I thought they were just
lost.
So Brian's remark got my attention. I haven't found anything in the 6th ed
variants I found in TUHS UNIX Archive.
Does anybody know how to find a Bourne shell before 7th ed?
Thanks and Cheers
Sven