Re: [OT] Re: how to start in "overwrite-mode"

[Stephane CHAZELAS]

2009-10-28 11:06:09 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 02:00:53PM +0000, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
> > > I can understand it. I was more curious about the origins. After
> > > all, that breaks Bourne backward compatibility (in a shell
> > > called Bourne-again shell)
> > 
> > Bourne shell has no functions at all.
> 
>    Had. Only before 1984. Since then it has had functions.
> 
>    The first shell I used, the Bourne shell on AT&T SVR3.2, had
>    functions.
[...]

Yes,

The best place for information on the Bourne shell IMO is
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/index.html

Where we learn that Solaris (well SunOS at the time) sh has had
functions since SunOS 3, which according to
http://www.levenez.com/unix/ (another great site about Unix
history) takes us back to early 1986.

-- 
Stephane