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diff --git a/system/v7sh/README b/system/v7sh/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6c8b1e743d --- /dev/null +++ b/system/v7sh/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +v7sh (port of the original Steve Bourne shell from 1978) + +This is Nikola Vladov's port of the V7 Unix Bourne shell to +modern systems, based on Geoff Collyer's port. It functions +almost identically to the original Bourne shell, with some slight +differences, and one major one: The original V7 shell didn't support +comments with the # character, but this one does. + +Installing this package adds /bin/v7sh to /etc/shells. The man page is +also called v7sh, though it calls itself "sh" in the text. + +See https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/ for more information. + +See also: + +system/etsh - Ken Thompson's shell, from V6 (~1975). +system/heirloom-sh - newer Bourne shell, based on SVr4 (~1988). +system/csh - historical version of the C shell. |