31 Jul
2021
31 Jul
'21
10:30 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:18 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Sorry, hit return too soon. I remember an old AAUGN
newsletter
describing it. If I recall it was original done for kermit. The same
idea is in tcsh also. Which came first, I don't remember. Cut/pasted from
AAUGN Vol8 # 2
Frank da Cruz wrote a very nice reminiscence of the DECSYSTEM-20s at
Columbia that discusses the creation of CCMD as they decommissioned the
PDP-10s and switched to Unix on VAXen (and then Suns).
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html
When I was a student, we were still given accounts on the CUNIX cluster;
64-bit SPARC machines running Solaris at the time. At the time, the actress
Julia Styles was a student. One day, I was walking out of Mudd (the
engineering building) with a friend of mine who suddenly grabbed my arm and
said, "oh my god oh my god oh my god that's Julia Styles!" Being
perpetually ignorant of popular culture, I had no idea who she was
referring to confusedly thought she meant Julia Child, the late host of a
cooking show. "...But I thought she was dead?" "No, Dan, that's Julia
Child!" We decided to look up Ms Styles in the student directory, but being
a celebrity she wasn't listed. However, one could still discover her "UNI"
(login name) by grepping for her in the NIS password database. We did that
and sent her an email: "Christy was too embarrassed to say hi to you and
Dan thought you were Julia Child." Predictably, she did not respond. In
retrospect, I idly wonder how many such emails she got, most presumably of
the creepy variety, but we just thought ours was funny.
It appears that CUNIX still exists: https://cuit.columbia.edu/unix
- Dan C.
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CCMD: A Version of COMND in C
*Andrew Lowry*
*Howard Kaye *
Columbia University
CCMD is a general parsing mechanism for developing User Interfaces to
programs. It is based on the functionality of TOP5.20's COMND Jsys. CCMD
allows a program to parse for various field types (file names, user names,
dates and times, keywords, numbers, arbitrary text, tokens, *etc*.). It
is meant to supply a homogeneous user interface across a variety of
machines and operating systems for C programs. It currently runs under
System V UNIX, 4.2/4.3 BSD, Ultrix 1.2/2.0, and MSDOS. The library defines
various default actions (user settable), and allows field completion, help,
file indirection, comments, *etc*. on a per field basis. Future plans
include command line editing, command history, and ports to other operating
systems (such as VMS).
CCMD is available for anonymous FTP from
[CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU]WS:<SOURCE.CCMD>*.*
For further information, send mail to:
info-ccmd-request(a)cu20b.columbia.edu
seismo!columbia!cunixc!info-ccmd-request
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:03 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> https://github.com/PDP-10/sri-nic/blob/master/files/fs/c/ccmd/ccmdmd.unx
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 11:46 AM Richard Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Look for "comnd jsys" that exact spelling. Source code is around.
>>
>>
>>>