Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell... Message-ID: <6736@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 21:16:45 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6736 Posted: Wed Nov 25 21:16:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 11:47:54 EST References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP> <6704@brl-smoke.ARPA> <6721@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2277@homxc.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 165 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:5098 comp.unix.wizards:5641 In article <2277@homxc.UUCP> wel@homxc.UUCP (Winston Lee) writes: >In article <6721@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes: >> ... There are many other interesting things in the Research UNIX systems >> that have not (so far) appeared in the commercial UNIX System V product. >Details please Well, I'm not sure what good it will do, and I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but here is a partial list of interesting Ninth Edition goodies that, so far as I know, are not found in any commercial UNIX release. Please don't bug me for further details, however. shell functions exported via environment enhanced version of "awk" improved typesetter support, including "pp" pretty-printer, citation and bibliography preprocessors (besides "refer"), script-driven document generator, and the "ideal" complex plane-based picture-drawing language a version of "cat" that has no options B-tree utilities and subroutines C++ compiler, library, and header files C interpreter "cyntax" & "cem" C syntax checker ("lint" replacement) reasonable remote-execution facility interactive directory editor "printf" formatted-echo utility superior process control/debugging facilities based on a process file system "hoc" interactive floating-point language interactive file comparison line-by-line profiler for C and Fortran-77 "mk" replacement for "make" automatic software distribution facilities (not BSD "rdist") interactive frame-buffer image editor Datakit support Ricoh scanner support various support for the mail system several handy shell programming utilities, including a sequence generator Snocone programming language TeX text formatter and typesetter support data communication protocol analyzer display of movie of a function of x,y,t (utility and library functions) Writer's WorkBench support for WWV-synchronized clock fast buffered I/O library (like stdio) garbage-collecting storage allocation functions functions for breaking a string into fields IPC library map projection generators expanded plot library and file format new variants of popen() PORT mathematical library for Fortran new formatted print routines more rational internet, TCP, and UDP support a variety of unique stream modules, line disciplines, etc. standardized bitmap and pixel file formats several games, including air traffic control and bridge various dictionaries, thesaurus, etc. Bell Labs library services interface a variety of digitized map databases and utilities macros to typeset bitmaps and cover sheets astronomical sky catalog and utility private/corporate phone book support PDP-11 cross-compilation support utility to find all processes using a specified device enhanced system/process status information utilities "upas" mail delivery system And there is a slew of software for AT&T (Teletype) model 5620 Dot-Mapped Display terminals that is not included in the packages commercially licensed by AT&T: "mux" stream-based terminal controller support for capturing portions of bitmaps in files, printing them, etc. "brush" and "paint" painting programs support for grayscale images, notably face icons, including a "vismon" variant of "sysmon" that shows visages of people who have sent you mail; also a network face server "flicks" movie graphics editor for combinatoric graphs font editor "ped" interactive drawing program "pi" spiffy debugger (along the lines of dmdebug but more so), including debugging host processes as well as DMD ones a "ruler" for measuring things on the screen "sam" editor with structural regular expressions and mouse support special H-P ThinkJet printer utilities and functions hierarchical menu support "pads" user interface package for browsing a network of windows "crabs" (as reported in September 1985 Scientific American) "gebaca" and "pengo" arcade games menu dropper to aid in setting up screen dumps for documentation purposes road-map display Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com