From: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:39:16 -0500
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Question
Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org
Sender: "TUHS" <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org>

Rob Pike, re the spelling corrector in V8 and later Research
versions of sh:

> That was done by Tom Duff, I believe before he came to Bell Labs. I might
> have brought the idea with me from Toronto.

Very likely, since you left it behind at Caltech as well; it was
in sh on cithep (a hostname meaningless to many but rob will remember)
when I arrived in 1980.

It was in the version of p you left behind there as well.

I can confirm that spname remained in the shell through V10
(it's still in my copy), but it seems to have disappeared from p.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON