herb fox wrote:
> One of my sons, Brian, was the first paid employee of the Free
> Software Foundation, Richard Stallman's creation .  Brian is the
> author of the GNU Bash Shell

i'll be damned, small world.... i've been using bash since forever.....

here's a little history i found, from your son's eventual co-author:

  http://www.coyote.org/interviews/chet-ramey/

out of curiosity, is he still coding FSF stuff?

Les




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