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From: ford@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Documented but un-obvious UNIX tricks
Summary: Ok, it wasn't in V7
Message-ID: <8549@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 89 04:35:06 GMT
References: <23616@cup.portal.com> <23698@cup.portal.com> <8504@cbmvax.UUCP> <11381@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ford@amix.commodore.com (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8504@cbmvax.UUCP> I wrote:
>The "trick" of ls looking at its invocation name was present and
>documented in 7th edition Unix, and is still in BSD.

In article <11381@cbnews.ATT.COM> mark@cblpf.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
>I can confirm most of this, except that it wasn't in V7.

Hmm.  I just remembered that the V7 system I used was actually "TNIX"
(V7 + a very few enhancements on a Tektronix LSI 11/23 system), so I'll
take Mark's word for it.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ditto@amix.commodore.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ford@kenobi.commodore.com