Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!sce!greg
From: greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: lc
Message-ID: <560@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 4 Mar 89 20:30:57 GMT
References: <2107@water.waterloo.edu> <300@laas.laas.fr> <8344@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <1729@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@sce.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1729@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>In article <8344@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@watmum.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
>> In article <300@laas.laas.fr> someone who shall remain nameless
>
>> >It seems that your `lc' is non-standard with respect to System V;
>> >that's where it came from.
>
>> Perhaps someone who knows more about this will comment.
>
>> I have used "lc" since the early 70's,
>> When was System V introduced?
>
>lc is a XENIX-ism.  It is, in system 5 jargon, equivalent to ls -C.
>It forces ls to produce multi-column output with the entries sorted
>down the column (as opposed to ls -x which sorts across).
>

lc stands for 'list catalogue' and existed back in the good old V6
UNIX days, which predates XENIX and Microsoft.  Lc was originally
written in 'B' and ran on a honeywell at Waterloo because the
catalogue listing commands, like most of the software that honeywell
produced, was rather 'quaint'.  (how about 'ACCESS MF foobar' to
change the file attributes... blech)

Needless to say, its been ported quite a bit.

Lc (the one from the net) tends to follow me around where ever I go,
though I never even thought of porting it to my Atari :-).


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