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  2. From: toivo@ucs.uwa.OZ.AU (Toivo Pedaste)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: a shell idea
  5. Message-ID: <1ea1eiINNqcs@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 05:54:26 GMT
  7. References: <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov16.183020.2264@muddcs.claremont.edu> <ins217t.721956224@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
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  12. >>In article <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
  13. >>>i was thinking that one could create a "super" shell which understood
  14. >>>the syntax of all the major shells: csh, tcsh, ksh, sh, bash, ash, etc.
  15. >>>of course, size would be affected, but imagine the power, not to 
  16. >>>mention the end of all the bickering.
  17.  
  18. Have a look at zsh, it is pretty close to a merger of csh/tcsh and sh/ksh.
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