8 Dec
2017
8 Dec
'17
12:12 p.m.
Hi.
Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Sigh; there's one in every bunch :-)
Sorry. I tend to be too literal-minded sometimes. That can help for
doing software development, but can get in the way at other times.
Never got
to use the V7 shell; we were stuck with 11/40s[*] :-( It was
certainly in the V6 shell, hence by bafflement at why labels were of
the form ": blah" instead of the sensible "blah: "...
Come now, since then you've *never* used any kind of Bourne shell? BSD
on vax? SunOS? System III or System V on anything else? You've been
stuck in a time warp for 35 years? :-) OK, I never got to use the V7 shell on V7, because I
never got to use
V7 on my machines (and the use of "goto" had been thoroughly beaten out
of me by then, so I never thought to try it).
I see. Much better. :-)
Thanks,
Arnold