7 Dec
2017
7 Dec
'17
5:57 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
"goto" was in the V6 shell, I think (next to
no experience with the V6
shell, and it was a LONG time ago anyway). But there never was a goto
in the V7 shell.
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: "...
[*]
Although I did shove as much of the V7 kernel into V6 as I could (such as
XON/XOFF), thereby earning me the sobriquet "Mr Unix 6.5" or something;
having the AUSAM buffer scheme helped a lot.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."