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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell...
Message-ID: <6736@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 21:16:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 21:16:45 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
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In article <2277@homxc.UUCP> wel@homxc.UUCP (Winston Lee) writes:
>In article <6721@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>> ...  There are many other interesting things in the Research UNIX systems
>> that have not (so far) appeared in the commercial UNIX System V product.
>Details please

Well, I'm not sure what good it will do, and I don't want to spend a lot
of time on this, but here is a partial list of interesting Ninth Edition
goodies that, so far as I know, are not found in any commercial UNIX
release.  Please don't bug me for further details, however.

	shell functions exported via environment

	enhanced version of "awk"

	improved typesetter support, including "pp" pretty-printer,
	citation and bibliography preprocessors (besides "refer"),
	script-driven document 	generator, and 	the "ideal" complex
	plane-based picture-drawing language

	a version of "cat" that has no options

	B-tree utilities and subroutines

	C++ compiler, library, and header files

	C interpreter

	"cyntax" & "cem" C syntax checker ("lint" replacement)

	reasonable remote-execution facility

	interactive directory editor

	"printf" formatted-echo utility

	superior process control/debugging facilities based on a
	process file system

	"hoc" interactive floating-point language

	interactive file comparison

	line-by-line profiler for C and Fortran-77

	"mk" replacement for "make"

	automatic software distribution facilities (not BSD "rdist")

	interactive frame-buffer image editor

	Datakit support

	Ricoh scanner support

	various support for the mail system

	several handy shell programming utilities, including a
	sequence generator

	Snocone programming language

	TeX text formatter and typesetter support

	data communication protocol analyzer

	display of movie of a function of x,y,t (utility and library
	functions)

	Writer's WorkBench

	support for WWV-synchronized clock

	fast buffered I/O library (like stdio)

	garbage-collecting storage allocation functions

	functions for breaking a string into fields

	IPC library

	map projection generators

	expanded plot library and file format

	new variants of popen()

	PORT mathematical library for Fortran

	new formatted print routines

	more rational internet, TCP, and UDP support

	a variety of unique stream modules, line disciplines, etc.

	standardized bitmap and pixel file formats

	several games, including air traffic control and bridge

	various dictionaries, thesaurus, etc.

	Bell Labs library services interface

	a variety of digitized map databases and utilities

	macros to typeset bitmaps and cover sheets

	astronomical sky catalog and utility

	private/corporate phone book support

	PDP-11 cross-compilation support

	utility to find all processes using a specified device

	enhanced system/process status information utilities

	"upas" mail delivery system

And there is a slew of software for AT&T (Teletype) model 5620
Dot-Mapped Display terminals that is not included in the packages
commercially licensed by AT&T:

	"mux" stream-based terminal controller

	support for capturing portions of bitmaps in files,
	printing them, etc.

	"brush" and "paint" painting programs

	support for grayscale images, notably face icons, including
	a "vismon" variant of "sysmon" that shows visages of people
	who have sent you mail; also a network face server

	"flicks" movie graphics

	editor for combinatoric graphs

	font editor

	"ped" interactive drawing program

	"pi" spiffy debugger (along the lines of dmdebug but more
	so), including debugging host processes as well as DMD ones

	a "ruler" for measuring things on the screen

	"sam" editor with structural regular expressions and mouse
	support

	special H-P ThinkJet printer utilities and functions

	hierarchical menu support

	"pads" user interface package for browsing a network of
	windows

	"crabs" (as reported in September 1985 Scientific American)

	"gebaca" and "pengo" arcade games

	menu dropper to aid in setting up screen dumps for
	documentation purposes

	road-map display