From 25208e018a1430ae6ee3916d7213dc201dc76c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: erich Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:58:06 +0000 Subject: trim the DESCR's to something reasonable at Satoshi's request. --- shells/rc/pkg-descr | 42 +++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'shells/rc') diff --git a/shells/rc/pkg-descr b/shells/rc/pkg-descr index 43142d5..90ecb68 100644 --- a/shells/rc/pkg-descr +++ b/shells/rc/pkg-descr @@ -1,34 +1,22 @@ -This is release 1.5 of rc. +Excerpts from the README: -Read COPYRIGHT for copying information. All files are + This is release 1.5 of rc. -Copyright 1991, Byron Rakitzis. + A unix version of the Plan-9 Shell. -CREDITS + FEEPING CREATURISM -This shell was written by me, Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul -Haahr for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing -certain bits and pieces to rc (notably the limits code, print.c, -most of which.c and the backquote redirection code), and to Hugh -Redelmeier for running rc through his fussy ANSI compiler and -thereby provoking interesting discussions about portability, and -also for providing many valuable suggestions for improving rc's -code in general. Finally, many thanks go to David Sanderson, for -reworking the man page to format well with troff, and for providing -many suggestions both for rc and its man page. + See the end of the man page, under "INCOMPATABILITIES" for (known?) + differences from the "real" rc. Most of these changes were necessary + to get rc to work in a reasonable fashion on a real (i.e., commercial, + non-Labs) UNIX system; a few were changes motivated by concern + about some inadequacies in the original design. -Thanks to Boyd Roberts for the original history.c, and to Hugh -again for re-working parts of that code. + CREDITS -Of course, without Tom Duff's design of the original rc, I could -not have written this shell (though I probably would have written -*a* shell). Almost of all of the features, with minor exceptions, -have been implemented as described in the Unix v10 manuals. Hats -off to td for designing a C-like, minimal but very useful shell. + This shell was written by Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul + Haahr for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing + certain bits and pieces to rc (notably the limits code, print.c, + most of which.c and the backquote redirection code). -Tom Duff has kindly given permission for the paper he wrote for -UKUUG to be distributed with this version of rc (called "plan9.ps" -in the same ftp directory as the shell). Please read this paper -bearing in mind that it describes a program that was written at -AT&T and that the version of rc presented here differs in some -respects. +eric. -- cgit v1.1