From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 29 20:15:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from 141.com (mail1.141.com [65.168.139.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9756637B7D3 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from 141.com [138.88.109.59] by 141.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.05) id A1AC34A6010E; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:08:12 -0700 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An interesting man page from version 3 unix. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:46:37 +1030." <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:08:03 -0500 From: Andrew Lankford Message-Id: <200201292108437.SM01296@141.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > >Single line per paragraph. > >On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 20:09:45 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: >> In message <20020129145151.R37206@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: > >I'm not sure how it worked, but I'd be surprised if there were a >linker. Typically you'd just enter the source into the interpreter >and run it in that environment. Remember this wasn't a systems >programming language. Ken Thompson's homepage has a link to the B manual: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/kbman.html Section 10.0 has directions for "compiling" with /etc/bc and several other steps for producing an executable from that. Looks like the proverbial sausage recipe. Interesting, anyway. > >Greg >-- >When re3lying to this mes sage, please take ca#@%!re n ot to mu@ilate the >ori%inal texxt. >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message