9 Jan
2021
9 Jan
'21
2:39 p.m.
Rob Pike, re the spelling corrector in V8 and later Research
versions of sh:
That was done by Tom Duff, I believe before he came to
Bell Labs. I might
have brought the idea with me from Toronto.
Very likely, since you left it behind at Caltech as well; it was
in sh on cithep (a hostname meaningless to many but rob will remember)
when I arrived in 1980.
It was in the version of p you left behind there as well.
I can confirm that spname remained in the shell through V10
(it's still in my copy), but it seems to have disappeared from p.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
9 Jan
9 Jan
2:50 p.m.
New subject: Question
Ah cithep, I remember you well!
-rob
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 7:46 PM Norman Wilson <norman(a)oclsc.org> wrote:
Rob Pike, re the spelling corrector in V8 and later
Research
versions of sh:
That was done by Tom Duff, I believe before he
came to Bell Labs. I might
have brought the idea with me from Toronto.
Very likely, since you left it behind at Caltech as well; it was
in sh on cithep (a hostname meaningless to many but rob will remember)
when I arrived in 1980.
It was in the version of p you left behind there as well.
I can confirm that spname remained in the shell through V10
(it's still in my copy), but it seems to have disappeared from p.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
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