Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:32331 comp.unix.shell:2477 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!vision!ukpoit!alan From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Is my shell broken or what? Message-ID: <1991Jun21.153058.17535@ukpoit.co.uk> Date: 21 Jun 91 15:30:58 GMT References: <1991Jun7.140828.20332@prl.dec.com> <3528@unisoft.UUCP> <1991Jun19.095601.24906@prl.dec.com> Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office Lines: 22 In article <1991Jun19.095601.24906@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes: >In article <3528@unisoft.UUCP>, greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes: >> >> Is rc publicly available? I seem to remember seeing it fly around... > >Yes, it was posted to comp.sources.misc in May. It's the Tom Duff >Plan 9 shell written by Byron Rakitzis . > >You'll need an ANSI compiler, but it compiles and works fine. >I have it going on my 3max and VAXen at PRL. It's small and >it's fast and the code _can be understood by one person_. > Just in case anyone is interested, I backed it to K&R without very much effort, the only major problem was with the variable arguments stuff and even that was only a hour or so's work. -- Alan Barclay iT | E-mail : alan@ukpoit.uucp Barker Lane | BANG-STYLE : .....!ukc!ukpoit!alan CHESTERFIELD S40 1DY | VOICE : +44 246 214241