>>>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, "erik" == erik quanstrom wrote:
erik> i put up a copy of byron's rc on sources. For now, I put a copy on ftp://quenix2.dyndns.org/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rc-1.7.1.tar.gz for the FreeBSD rc's ports. (just for the record) erik> the implementation of rc has some advantages over byron's copy. erik> byron uses arena allocation and signal-handler gymnastics to erik> handle interrupts. rc's virtual stack machine just pops the stack erik> (automatically deallocating memory) until an interactive frame erik> is reached. the latest maintainer of byron's rc added some fluff erik> (especially magic like $version) that is gratituous and confusing. erik> the language is different, too. byron wanted if-then-else instead of erik> if not. he added ``(local-split-list) {} and here strings and does erik> not have the "<>" redirection. (which was added to rc later.) Yesterday, I read the p9p rc man page and try it. I think that these little things are missing for me to use this shell as login shell: - no history mechanism, like history(1) {- -p -- --p) that record commands in a $history file other than " "", wintext. This doesn't work in console mode. - CTRL+f doesn't work in console mode (that's probably not rc's problem but keyboard setting in console mode). For the rest, it look great. I think that I'll try to do a fork of just the p9p rc with byron's history. I'm not a programmer and I'll return to school Monday and I'll be very busy. so it could just be a vaporware. -- GAGNON serge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP KEY-ID: 0xBBC1478F PGP Fingerprint: B48B 4633 28F5 28F6 7A62 5650 69C8 E293 BBC1 478F PPG Key: http://quenix2.dyndns.org:7777 | telnet quenix2.dyndns.org 7777 Cvsdadm: Tool for CVSd pserver user administration http://quenix2.dyndns.org:8080/Unix-soft/cvsdadm.html
