Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA29099 for pups-liszt; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:24:03 +1000 (EST) Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29095 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:23:54 +1000 (EST) Received: from world.std.com (bdc@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13599; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:23:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (bdc@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11996; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:23:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:23:42 -0700 From: Brian D Chase To: Warren Toomey cc: Unix Heritage Society Subject: Re: When did the `dc' command first appear? In-Reply-To: <199910260007.KAA16993@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Warren Toomey wrote: > There's a binary of dc from either 1st or 2nd Edition in the PUPS Archive: > > -r---wxrw- 0/0 6846 Apr 14 06:50 1973 bin/dc Hmmm... did the permissions on files have the same meaning back in 1973 as they do now? Group and "other" writeable system binaries? Tsk tsk tsk. Well I suppose just because someone has written the Unix operating system, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're a very good Unix sysadmin. -brian. --- Brian Chase | bdc@world.std.com | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ ----- "Captain, we're experiencing a high rate of packet collisions!" -- K.