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rc - a shell
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This is rc, the Plan 9 shell, reimplemented for Unix by Byron Rakitzis.

The original rc was designed and implemented by Tom Duff at Bell Labs.
It has a small feature set similar to a traditional Bourne shell, but
with a much cleaner and simpler syntax. Among other things, this makes
rc much better than Bourne-compatible shells at handling filenames which
contain spaces. Thus, writing rc scripts is less error-prone than
writing sh scripts.

This reimplementation of rc can be linked with GNU readline, BSD
libedit, or similar line editing libraries, to make a pleasant
interactive shell.

See COPYING for copying information. All files are

   Copyright 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis.

See INSTALL for build and installation information.

The current maintainer is Toby Goodwin[1]. Please contact him with any
problems, questions, bug reports, or suggestions.

[1] mailto:toby@paccrat.org