freebsd-ports/shells/rc/pkg-descr
Satoshi Asami 4a6b440781 Various plan9 utilities. It's such a complete collection, I'm going
to import it all at once!

Submitted by:	 Eric L. Hernes <erich@lodgenet.com>
1995-08-14 04:08:02 +00:00

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This is release 1.5 of rc.
Read COPYRIGHT for copying information. All files are
Copyright 1991, Byron Rakitzis.
CREDITS
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.
Thanks to Boyd Roberts for the original history.c, and to Hugh
again for re-working parts of that code.
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.
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.