i read this several weeks ago. thanks for taking the time to document this. i found it very instructive.
- erik On Fri Apr 28 16:14:49 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The cleanup I did was relatively late in the game (1988) and was done > to the Ninth Edition Unix sh. My stak.c is available at my web page > (www.collyer.net/who/geoff) but the fixes didn't get back into most > shells (Cray may have picked them up). > > As I noted in the corresponding paper, A Partial Tour Through the UNIX > Shell, > > The shell was the last program ported to the Interdata during > the original UNIX port, due to the difficulty of getting the > details of restarting faulting instructions just right, which > is why the Seventh Edition (also known as ``V7'') distribution > tape includes /bin/osh, the Sixth Edition shell. > >
