andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) (06/15/88)
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"Before the Bourne shell there was the Mashey shell. It
supported ^ for the pipe symbol not |. This was a very
primitive shell ... For example wild card were expanded in a
separate process, yuck."
It sounds like the /bin/sh distributed with Unix v6, but that shell
accepted both '^' and '|'. In the early 1970s, terminals on which it
was easy to key '|' were not widespread. The classic terminal, the
TTY33, had no way to key '|', '{', '}', '~', or '`'. (Or lower case
letters, for that matter.)
-=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]wjc@ho5cad (Bill Carpenter) (06/15/88)
In article <10083@tekecs.TEK.COM>, andrew@frip (Andrew Klossner) writes: >accepted both '^' and '|'. In the early 1970s, terminals on which it >was easy to key '|' were not widespread. The classic terminal, the >TTY33, had no way to key '|', '{', '}', '~', or '`'. (Or lower case >letters, for that matter.) Remnants of which you can see (and might have otherwise wondered about) in the termio(7) man page (at least on my system). If you set both XCASE and ICANON, it seems to be related to this gobbledygook. There is also a companion piece about "half ASCII mode" (how cute!) in some versions of the lp(7) man page. I'm pretty glad that most of the time all I have to worry about now is the occasional EBCDIC incursion. (Like, I don't have to worry about the difference between Univac 6-bit field data code, CDC 6-bit field data code, DoD 6-bit field data code, ITA No. 5, baudot code, and a host of other stuff. Maybe somebody should suggest making ASCII a standard? :-) -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill