On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
On 9/14/17 8:13 AM, Rico Pajarola wrote:

> True, I'm amazed every time I try a really old version of some old GNU
> software like bash 1.0 on a contemporary (but unusual) OS. No errors, no
> warnings, nothing to fix-up manually. It just works.

If you have a version of bash-1.0, send it my way. We weren't quite as
careful with preserving milestone software versions in those days.
it wasn't *exactly* 1.0 

The oldest version I can find with by running "locate bash-1.0" on my datagrave is version 1.05.

Do you keep an archive of old software somewhere? I spend a lot of time hunting down old versions of 90'ies era software, but it's becoming increasingly frustrating due to ftp services being turned down, especially at universities.



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