On 04/27/16 15:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: > The V1 shell was of course not Bourne's. > > However Bourne's code was consider "unmaintainable" as he was an > algol coder, not a C coder. He had numerous macros defined to > allow him to use his algol coding style with a C compiler. So *that's* what it is! I have a copy of the source (on paper). What a hoot! I thought he was trying to make C look like shell code. Jack