Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!raf From: raf@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SEA threat to other ARC utility authors Message-ID: <8851@cup.portal.com> Date: 7 Sep 88 22:09:12 GMT References: Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 27 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2659 I wrote in article <8798@cup.portal.com>: > I have neither the reference nor the book handy at the moment, but I'd > guess the book bears a copyright date in the late 70's. I've now had a chance to locate my (rather dusty) copy of this classic: "Software Tools" by Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plauger. Copyright 1976 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated and Yourdon inc. Published by Addison-Wesley, softcover, 338 pages. ISBN 0-201-03669-X. > I believe "Software Tools" devotes an entire chapter to the design and > development, in C language, of a file librarian program called > "archive". Well, mostly correct: The language used is Ratfor (which was modelled after C), and the archive program provides the major example for the chapter concerning file operations (sections 3.8-3.10, pp. 85-103). > This used a distributed directory approach and command line syntax > remarkably similar to those used by SEA's ARC. Having just re-read this material, I find the similarity quite striking. -- Bob Freed raf@cup.portal.com ...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!raf "Next thing you know, we'll have to pay license fees for using inverse trigonometric functions!"