[TUHS] Subject: Re: CTSS user interface

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Tue Dec 29 16:38:26 AEST 2015


> > Louis wrote a disk loaded program called RUNCOM that read command
> > lines from a file,

> Hence, presumably, the .foorc files of Unix and the rc shell.

Yes, rc files were named for runcom, but did not adhere to runcom's
curious limit of 6 commands.

Doug



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