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- From: dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty)
- Subject: Re: a shell idea
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150037.29593@miles.com>
- Organization: Miles, Inc. Diagnostics Divis.
- References: <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:00:37 GMT
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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.
-
- That would make it the Mother of All SHells ("mash")! :-)
- sorry.
-
- You're looking for zsh. If you thought the trend was away from
- command-line interfaces, toward GUI's, think again!
- Zsh has everything and more. It's in H.J.'s GCC directory on tsx-11.
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- Dennis T. Flaherty dennisf@Miles.com
- Miles, Inc. dflahert@chekov.helios.nd.edu
- Diagnostics Division (Diabetes B.U.)
- My doctor says Mylanta, but my boss says Alka-Seltzer!
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