[ On Thursday, July 13, 2000 at 10:23:18 (-0400), Thomas E. Dickey wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: portability of "shift N"?
>
> iirc, the older BSD's (4.2 probably). I used to get burned by that on
> Apollo.
Ah, yes, of course. The optional count for shift was introduced by ATT
USG sometime around SysVr2 or so (it's not in SysIII). V7's sh, and
thus all those based directly on it (including close mimics like perhaps
even minix), don't allow the option. (As I would have known if I'd
looked at my V7 source! ;-)
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