Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:46:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.com> Subject: Re: tcsh fix Message-ID: <20041113084618.GA56037@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041112230333.GV772@cicely12.cicely.de> 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>
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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)
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