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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: The Revenge of CSH
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- References: <Bzz748.GDK@csn.org> <799@cebu.sbi.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:36:24 GMT
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- In <799@cebu.sbi.com> goldfish@cebu.sbi.com (P. Goldsmith) writes:
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- >In article <Bzz748.GDK@csn.org> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
- >>
- >> The reason for this reply is that I'm one of a number of folks working
- >>on a csh clone (called GSH, and for the GNO/ME system for the Apple IIgs).
- >>We intend to fix most if not all of these problems as we implement csh
- >>from scratch on a 16-bit platform. But I take offense to the manner in
- >>which csh's bugs are listed, and then be stated "csh sucks, is
- >>totally unworthy", basically.
- >> So, let the flamefest begin.
- >>
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- >[deleted]
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- >If there exists a custom version of csh (tcsh, etc ...) then I can write
- >NON_PORTABLE programs for that shell. this still does not give me a general
- >programming shell, since I can't guarantee its availability, and may not be
- >able to install it everywhere in the world.
-
- Who sez that tcsh is non-portable? It is available on a number of platforms.
- When you write a tcsh script it *is* portable: to other machines with tcsh
- on them. It's the same situation with bash.
-
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- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
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