19 Nov
2020
19 Nov
'20
3:50 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 3:27 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Joy's cshell came out as part of 2BSD (which was
V7 based), but he had
released "ashell" before that and included it in the original BSD (
*a.k.a.* 1BSD) which was for V6 [what I don't remember is if it supported
the convention and I can not easily un-ar(1) the cont.a files in the 1BSD
tar image in Warren's archives.
Looking at the ashell sources on the 1BSD tuhs utree viewer suggests that ~
wasn't there yet, but that it was planned:
sh.c:
...
Features remaining to be fixed up and/or implemented
======== ========= == == ===== == === == ===========
...
* Changes to glob to allow ~, prevent too long path, and prevent
* perhaps running out of directories.
...
Looking at glob.c, there's no ~ nor 126/176/7e in the sources. Editing
the cont.a archive directly confirms no ~ or similar constant is
present.
By 2BSD, it was in sh.glob.c in the 'expand' function. Later versions
define TILDE as '~' and used that. V7 had no ~ in the shell, but as
you point out uucp there supported ~ for user home directories. V6
didn't have any of this included that I can find.
Warner