Re: [pups] S.R.Bourne and the shell - TUHS

19 May 2005

On May 19,  11:16pm, Pete Turnbull wrote:
...

 I've found a copy of the book "The Unix System" and I've had the
 paper "An Introduction to the UNIX Shell" for 20 years, but I thought
 I'd seen a slim book by S.R.Bourne called "The UNIX Shell" or something
 of the sort.  However, Google, Bibliofind, etc have turned up nothing;
 has anyone seen this, or is my memory at fault once more? 

Are you possibly thinking of an article that appeared in the 1978 Bell System
Technical Journal?

...
 From the bibliography in "The UNIX System":

Bourne, S. R.  1978. "UNIX Time-Sharing System: The UNIX Shell". Bell Sys.
Tech. J. 57(6) 1971-90.

The issues of BSTJ that I have seen could be described as slim books - roughly
A5 paperback, around 200 pages.

This article is supposed to have also appeared in Volume 2 of the UNIX
Programmer's Manual - which would imply that it is the same as "An Introduction
to the UNIX Shell" (which is what my 7th Ed Manual contains).

Andrew.