an odd question

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Thu Aug 9 17:33:26 2001

It was thus said that the Great Mark Green once stated:
>
> > The unix shell has used the ^C nomenclature since I can remember, which
> > goes back to version 6 on PDP 11s.
> >
> > --tom
>
> This is the first time that I recall seeing it as well, but I got
> the impression that Unix borrowed the ^ notation from somewhere else.
> Maybe it was Multics or one of the other earlier operating systems.
> The early Unix documentation seemed to treat using the ^ notation
> as a standard practice, maybe it was a Bell Lab internal practice.

  The ^ was used on early shells as an alternative to the | character (and
this works under Xenix on the Tandy-6000). I don't think it's supported
anymore (much like _at_ to erase a line is no longer used).

  -spc (Gah! Why do I remember this stuff? 8-)
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 17:33:26 BST