9 Jul
2017
9 Jul
'17
12:15 a.m.
I was merely pointing out that the term 'glob' as a shortened form of
'global' predates UNIX, as does the concept of simple wildcard
matching that was later expanded into regular expression syntax.
-Paul W.
On 7/8/17, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
You are correct. Woops.
Sorry I left that part out. Was just replying to whoever said there was
a GLOB in TOPS-10.
On 7/8/2017 1:03 PM, Random832 wrote:
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017, at 19:00, Arthur Krewat
wrote:
From GLOB.MAC, TOPS-10 circa 1988 (not sure
what version that is):
TITLE GLOB -- GLOBAL CROSS-REFERENCE DIRECTORY LISTING
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/cgi-bin/searchbyname?name=glob.mac
Earliest version in that archive, 7-19-1975 but there are copyright
dates going back to 1968
;COPYRIGHT 1968,1969,1970,1971,1972, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP., MAYNARD,
MASS.
Looking at the help file, it looks like this is more about global
symbols in object files (i.e. something analogous to nm)
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/red405a2/11/unsupported/glob.hlp.html
The list of options matches the ones in swtab/sw1tab in the code, so
this is the same tool.