11 May
2017
11 May
'17
4:15 p.m.
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
fcheck ---> aka fsick -- aka fsck -- that's it.
From: Clem
Cole
it was was originally written for the for the 6th
edition FS (which I
hope I have still have the sources in my files) ...
I believe Noel recovered a copy in his files recently.
Well, I have _something_. It's called 'fcheck', not 'fsck', but
it looks
like
what we're talking about - maybe it was originally named, or renamed, to
be in
the same series as {d,i,n}check? But it does have the upper-case error
messages... :-) Anyway, here it is:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/fcheck.c
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/man8/fcheck.8
Interestingly, the man page for it makes reference to a 'check' command,
which
I didn't recall at all; here it is:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/check.c
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/man8/check.8
for those who are interested.
Jon Stienhart maybe??? He & Paul Rubinfield were in that scout group
years ago and were both long time UNIX hackers, but I've forgotten where
Stienhart did his undergrad.
of all bizarre connections! ISTR this came the same way, but maybe I'm
Noel has pointed out that MIT had it in the late
1970s also, probably
brought back from BTL by one of their summer students.
I think most of the Unix stuff we got from Bell (e.g. the OS, which is
clearly
PWB1, not V6) came from someone who was in a Scout unit there in high
school,
wrong.
It definitely arrived later than the OS - we'd be using icheck/dcheck for
quite a while before it arrived - so maybe it was another channel?
This is Ted's code and my error messages.
The only thing that for sure (that I recall) that
didn't come this way was
Emacs. Since the author had been a grad student in our group at MIT, I
think
you all can guess how we got that!
Noel
Clem