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- From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <mckeeveb.725854823@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Dec31.062544.5838@news.columbia.edu> <1992Dec31.175557.18716@cs.unca.edu> <1993Jan1.013430.16243@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:20:23 GMT
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- seeba@netcom.com (Tom Seeba) writes:
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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:
- >>
- >>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!).
- >>
-
- >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.
-
- I use the zsh here at SFU, and find that it has all of those features as
- well. I suspect the best is a matter of personal preference.
-
- I do agree that we're a lot better off since the days of sh. :-)
-
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