[TUHS] The 'usage: ...' message.
Ralph Corderoy
ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Mon May 20 03:22:16 AEST 2024
Hi Doug,
> Perhaps because it radically departs from Ken's "?" in qed/ed
That spread elsewhere. When PDP-7 Unix's cp.s is given an odd number of
arguments, leaving the last unpaired, it prints the argument followed by
‘ ?’. https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PDP7-Unix/cmd/cp.s
mes:
040000;077012
unbal:
lac name2
tad d4
dac 1f
lac d1
sys write; 1: 0; 4
lac d1
sys write; mes; 2
sys exit
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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