[rescue] Hark, something from the depths of the storage closet!

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I find it humorous that 'true' has a built-in help
> > system...
> 
> Are you talking about GNU true?  I'm just surprised that it can't
> check or send electronic mail.

>From Solaris 9 (don't worry, I removed all the proprietary source code,
I am sure this disclaimer would be considered "fair use"):

#!/usr/bin/sh
#       Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
#         All Rights Reserved

#       THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
#       The copyright notice above does not evidence any
#       actual or intended publication of such source code.

#ident  "@(#)true.sh    1.6     93/01/11 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.4   */

One question - do I read this right, has this gone through *six*
revisions (the 1.6 in the ident line)? Also, this code has been bug
free for over 10 years!

Yeah!


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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