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

23 May 2005

On May 19 2005, 12:11, Andrew Lynch wrote:
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  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? 
I probably am...

...
  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). 
Yes, that's in mine too.  I just thought the "slim book" had slightly
more in it, but perhaps that's because it has smaller pages, and
therefore the artice is spread over more of them.  I think our library
has a copy of the BSTJ, so I can check.

Someone emailed me off-list with a URL for an HTML-ised version;
thanks, but I have a real 7th Edition Manual with that paper, as well
as the troff source on my (original) 7th Edition distro.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York