Begin3 Title: rc shell Version: 1.5 beta Entered-date: July 23, 1997 Description: rc is a shell designed by Tom Duff of Bell Labs to replace the Description: venerable Bourne sh in Plan 9. The design of rc is extremely Description: clean, in that precisely those features of Bourne's sh that have Description: caused problems over the years (the slightly awkward flow control Description: syntax, the Byzantine quoting rules, the failure to export all Description: variables into the environment) were reworked, and the temptation Description: to add superfluous features was strongly resisted. This is Byron Description: Rakitzis's version of rc that is portable between many versions of Description: UNIX and is largely compatible with Duff's design. Keywords: rc, plan9, plan 9, shell Author: (Byron Rakitzis) Maintained-by: (nas170@mail.usask.ca) Neil Schemenauer Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/shells/rc-1.5-bin.tar.gz Alternate-site: Original-site: viz.tamu.edu:/pub/rc Platforms: ANSI C, most Unix systems Copying-policy: Freely Redistributable End