From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 08:46:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE14616A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:46:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB9843D53 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:46:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAD8kKx9057978; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAD8kIvg057977; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:46:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: ticso@cicely.de Message-ID: <20041113084618.GA56037@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <41940880.7070409@corserv.com> <20041112023023.GG19417@silverwraith.com> <20041112031122.GA87071@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20041112055543.GH19417@silverwraith.com> <20041112160528.GA91711@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20041112175005.GG1807@suricate.otoh.org> <20041112230333.GV772@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041112230333.GV772@cicely12.cicely.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Kevin Lyons Subject: Re: tcsh fix X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:46:29 -0000 On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:03:34AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > I often missed features in FreeBSD ash that Solaris /bin/sh had, such as > using ^ sign as an | alternative (in germany one often has to search > the | key on bad configured terminals, which was not uncommon in field > service). That actually isn't a Solaris'ism -- '^' was used as the pipe character in Ken Thompson's Version 4 shell, before '|' was decided on. http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v4/ -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)