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- From: seeba@netcom.com (Tom Seeba)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.013430.16243@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec31.062544.5838@news.columbia.edu> <1992Dec31.175557.18716@cs.unca.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:34:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.175557.18716@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
- >Michael Hauben (hauben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
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- > [lot's of stuff deleted]
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- >The cli -- command line interface -- has come a long way from sh.
- >tcsh, the best interactive shell out there now, has full command
- >line editing and recall (it even saves your commands between
- >sessions!).
- >
- > [more stuff deleted]
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- >Scott
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- Tcsh the best interactive shell? Man, you're living in the dark ages.
- Try the korn shell. It's a couple of orders of magnitude better than
- tcsh.
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- Tom
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