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| author | Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org> | 2015-05-17 20:29:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org> | 2015-05-17 20:29:26 +0100 |
| commit | 8481121e378fbe8512b892dc83f63e1656f83aef (patch) | |
| tree | 078ca1e7372735ef08ac35afd863066574f2f8bb /README | |
| parent | 25bc76cc1e058e31d20dfb834ed46db18d457f74 (diff) | |
tidy up READMEs
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@@ -1,38 +1,26 @@ -This is release rc-1.7.4. +rc - a shell +============ -See COPYING for copying information. All files are - - Copyright 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis. - -See INSTALL for build and installation information. - - -BUGS +This is rc, the Plan 9 shell, reimplemented for Unix by Byron Rakitzis. -Send bug reports to <toby@paccrat.org>. If a core dump is generated, -sending a backtrace will help a great deal. You can get a backtrace -like this. +The original rc was designed and implemented by Tom Duff at Bell Labs. +It has a small feature set similar to a traditional Bourne shell, but +with a much cleaner and simpler syntax. Among other things, this makes +rc much better than Bourne-compatible shells at handling filenames which +contain spaces. Thus, writing rc scripts is less error-prone than +writing sh scripts. - ; gdb rc core - (gdb) where - <<<BACKTRACE INFO>>> - (gdb) +This reimplementation of rc can be linked with GNU readline, BSD +libedit, or similar line editing libraries, to make a pleasant +interactive shell. -Also, always report the machine, OS (`uname -a'), and compiler used to -make rc; this information is extremely valuable. - - -FEEPING CREATURISM - -See the end of the man page, under "INCOMPATIBILITIES" 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. +See COPYING for copying information. All files are + Copyright 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis. -WWW +See INSTALL for build and installation information. -More information on releases of rc can be found at this web page. +The current maintainer is Toby Goodwin[1]. Please contact him with any +problems, questions, bug reports, or suggestions. - http://tobold.org/article/rc +[1] mailto:toby@paccrat.org |