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| From | Bob Eager <throwaway0008@eager.cx> |
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| Subject | Re: Old commercial UNIX in '26 |
| Date | 15 Jun 2026 19:06:35 GMT |
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:43:18 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Bob Eager <throwaway0008@eager.cx> writes:
>>On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:29:42 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>
>>> jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> writes:
>>>>scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Classic unix did not ever have a chdir command.
>>>>>
>>>>> It did have a chdir(2) system call, however.
>>>>Unix v6 on the PDP-11 has 'chdir' and 'cd' does not work. I have this
>>>>system under emulation.
>>>>
>>>>http://squoze.net/UNIX/v6man/man1/chdir
>>>
>>> I sit corrected, however 'cd' was the standard command, 'chdir'
>>> was supported as an alias by the bourne shell.
>>
>>The Bourne shell did not exist at the 'classic' time I am talking about.
>>It was 'sh' or nothing.
>>
>> switch(t[DTYP]) {
>>
>> case TCOM:
>> cp1 = t[DCOM]; if(equal(cp1, "chdir")) {
>> if(t[DCOM+1] != 0) {
>> if(chdir(t[DCOM+1]) < 0)
>> err("chdir: bad directory");
>> } else
>> err("chdir: arg count");
>> return;
>> }
>> if(equal(cp1, "shift")) {
>> if(dolc < 1) {
>>
>>
> The last time I used v6 was 1979. Memory fail.
I think by that time most people had hacked it to have 'cd' as well. I
started with v6 in 1975.
As an awakward typist, I found chdir hard to type! And I wasn't the only
one.
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