[TUHS] shell PS1/PS2 which survive cut-paste
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Dec 8 07:46:14 AEST 2017
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
>> Never got to use the V7 shell; we were stuck with 11/40s[*] :-( It was
>> certainly in the V6 shell, hence by bafflement at why labels were of
>> the form ": blah" instead of the sensible "blah: "...
>
> Come now, since then you've *never* used any kind of Bourne shell? BSD
> on vax? SunOS? System III or System V on anything else? You've been
> stuck in a time warp for 35 years? :-)
Sigh; there's one in every bunch :-) OK, I never got to use the V7 shell
on V7, because I never got to use V7 on my machines (and the use of "goto"
had been thoroughly beaten out of me by then, so I never thought to try
it).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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