On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III wrote:
On Mar 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
hmm - I can remember when it was a problem (around 1990), but can't
recall whether it was Apollo SR9, SunOS 3 or HPUX. You did say
"ancient"...
The dirname utility originated in System III. It has evolved
through the System V releases to a version that matches the
requirements specified in this description in System V Release 3.
4.3 BSD and earlier versions did not include dirname.
yes - for instance, Apollo supported BSD 4.3 and Systerm V
environments.
Scripts written for the latter could have used dirname, while the
former
could not.
(There are still hobbyists running Apollos of course - not I).
Both Apollo, and HP-UX were SysV/BSD hybrids. Sun's under SunOS
(pre Solaris) were BSD.
trt
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