Re: What is a Mainframe?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 16:21

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In article <5076@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> and then all I have to do is remember that a bang-sign imbedded in the middle
>> of an address string is _still_ taken as a -history- reference by the shell...
>
>Now that's the first valid gripe I've even seen. This has been fixed in
>the current version of the cshell:

It was always fixed in all versions of the Bourne shell, which is the only
shell (post-V6) properly referred to as "the shell". :-)  The problem here
is that some twit of a sysadmin has given a novice the C shell.
-- 
$10 million equals 18 PM       |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
(Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
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