Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:01:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Lankford <arlankfo@141.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An interesting man page from version 3 unix. Message-ID: <20020130150145.A94308@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200201292108437.SM01296@141.com> References: <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200201292108437.SM01296@141.com>
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On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 23:08:03 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > 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 Well, that's Dennis, not Ken. Ken just wrote the manual. > 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. I think a lot of UNIX was like that at the time. Greg -- 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
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