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From: mike@nexus.UUCP (Mike Hickey)
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Subject: Re: Command interfaces
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 17:44:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 17:44:01 1987
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Summary: TOPS-20 style parser



Greetings!

    Having been a TOPS hacker of sorts, all this discussion piqued my
interest.  Regarding a script language, there was PCL (Programable
Command Language) available from C-M University.  You were able to
"install" new commands into TOPS complete with arg evaluation and arg
help using the '?'.  

    As for a parser under un*x, Columbia Univ.  has been working on a
version of the COMND system call (that did all the parsing) written in
'C'.  There is a newsgroup that handles info but the address escapes
me right now.  

Perhaps this will jog someone else's memory....