9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
5:33 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Mark Green once stated:
The ^ was used on early shells as an alternative to the | character (and
this works under Xenix on the Tandy-6000). I don't think it's supported
anymore (much like @ to erase a line is no longer used).
-spc (Gah! Why do I remember this stuff? 8-)
The unix shell has used the ^C nomenclature since
I can remember, which
goes back to version 6 on PDP 11s.
--tom
This is the first time that I recall seeing it as well, but I got
the impression that Unix borrowed the ^ notation from somewhere else.
Maybe it was Multics or one of the other earlier operating systems.
The early Unix documentation seemed to treat using the ^ notation
as a standard practice, maybe it was a Bell Lab internal practice.