10 Feb
2020
10 Feb
'20
9:46 p.m.
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Geoff Collyer wrote a nice paper about experiences
porting the 9th Edition
shell to SunOS 3 on the 68k some years ago.
http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf
There is a copy of source code on his personal web page:
http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/
I wonder if any of the 8th edition shell changes you mentioned survived in
that code?
It took less than 10 minutes to get it to compile under Linux. 'whatis'
is there, although the pretty printing of function code leaves
much to be desired.
Lacking is both readline and job control.
Arnold