trim the DESCR's to something reasonable at Satoshi's request.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/shells/rc/pkg-descr b/shells/rc/pkg-descr
index 43142d5d5263..90ecb689fecd 100644
--- a/shells/rc/pkg-descr
+++ b/shells/rc/pkg-descr
@@ -1,34 +1,22 @@
-This is release 1.5 of rc.
+Excerpts from the README:
 
-Read COPYRIGHT for copying information. All files are
+  This is release 1.5 of rc.
 
-Copyright 1991, Byron Rakitzis.
+  A unix version of the Plan-9 Shell.
 
-CREDITS
+  FEEPING CREATURISM
 
-This shell was written by me, Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul
-Haahr for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing
-certain bits and pieces to rc (notably the limits code, print.c,
-most of which.c and the backquote redirection code), and to Hugh
-Redelmeier for running rc through his fussy ANSI compiler and
-thereby provoking interesting discussions about portability, and
-also for providing many valuable suggestions for improving rc's
-code in general. Finally, many thanks go to David Sanderson, for
-reworking the man page to format well with troff, and for providing
-many suggestions both for rc and its man page.
+  See the end of the man page, under "INCOMPATABILITIES" for (known?)
+  differences from the "real" rc. Most of these changes were necessary
+  to get rc to work in a reasonable fashion on a real (i.e., commercial,
+  non-Labs) UNIX system; a few were changes motivated by concern
+  about some inadequacies in the original design.
 
-Thanks to Boyd Roberts for the original history.c, and to Hugh
-again for re-working parts of that code.
+  CREDITS
 
-Of course, without Tom Duff's design of the original rc, I could
-not have written this shell (though I probably would have written
-*a* shell). Almost of all of the features, with minor exceptions,
-have been implemented as described in the Unix v10 manuals. Hats
-off to td for designing a C-like, minimal but very useful shell.
+  This shell was written by Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul
+  Haahr for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing
+  certain bits and pieces to rc (notably the limits code, print.c,
+  most of which.c and the backquote redirection code).
 
-Tom Duff has kindly given permission for the paper he wrote for
-UKUUG to be distributed with this version of rc (called "plan9.ps"
-in the same ftp directory as the shell). Please read this paper
-bearing in mind that it describes a program that was written at
-AT&T and that the version of rc presented here differs in some
-respects.
+eric.