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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: a shell idea
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov16.183020.2264@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:23:44 GMT
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- jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
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- >In article <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >>i was thinking that one could create a "super" shell which understood
- >>the syntax of all the major shells: csh, tcsh, ksh, sh, bash, ash, etc.
- >>of course, size would be affected, but imagine the power, not to
- >>mention the end of all the bickering.
-
- >Um, why? I would much rather have five binaries for tcsh, ksh, bash,
- >rc, and some other shell on my system that I could trim down if I
- >needed (like delete tcsh since I wouldn't use it...) rather than some
- >monolithic beast that contained features I really don't need.
-
- >Small is beautiful.
-
- Hear Hear !
-
- It's the small programs that you put together to make big programs(via shell
- scripts) that really makes UNIX something different to the "Let's reinvent the wheel"
- syndrome of DOS...
-
- And besides, can you imagine all the syntax clashes ?
- you'd have to have a "csh" mode for csh/tcsh, "sh" mode for sh/ksh/bash,
- etc....
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
-
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