mlip@NADC.ARPA (09/10/84)
[In tenebris,i!] (for Latin freaks) A hearty thanks to all who explained the problem of the "That Crazy Caret". The explanation was that the caret ('^') is a synonym for the vertical bar or pipe symbol ('|'). Apparently, this equivalence is preserved for upward compatibility. Previous version of UNIX treated the caret as the piping symbol. This was probably due to the unavailability of the vertical bar on many older keyboards. However, I could not find any reference to the caret as an alternate symbol for piping in the 4.1 BSD documentation. Thanks mlip@nadc
gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA (09/10/84)
From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA> That's a bit unfair, since on BRL UNIX systems we use the UNIX System V Bourne shell and its corresponding manual page. On the other hand, I recommend that everyone do the same..