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- From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.190907.10166@cs.unca.edu>
- Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:09:07 GMT
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- Tom Seeba (seeba@netcom.com) wrote:
- : 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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- Uh, oh. Wait a minute ... is it time for a shell war? Naaahhhh...
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- Like Justin Wilson said about wine, the kind of shell you use is the
- kind of shell you like...
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- The korn shell doesn't do much for me. I'm so used to csh syntax,
- built in features, and commands that there's no reason to learn
- another shell when something as fantastic as tcsh exists.
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- One of these days I'm going to write a shell entirely in Perl and
- it'll replace all the shells now. :)
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- Scott
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