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In article <CutEGJ.GM3@nsc.nsc.com>,
Glenn Newell <glenn@lightning.nsc.com> wrote:
>In article K77@netcom.com,  moriarty@netcom.com (Neal Riemer) writes:
>>So, my question is: can I change to tcsh and still just use the
>>basic stuff the same as in csh.

Same basic stuff.

>Tcsh is a superset of csh. Everything is the same except file name
>completion is on the tab key instead of the escape key.

It's not a strict superset, but comes close.  Some advanced stuff
(like quoting rules, modifiers on variable names, and so forth) are
slightly different, which might break your csh scripts but shouldn't
have a great impact on interactive use.  (Not that you should be
writing many csh scripts.)  The built-in echo and ls are also slightly
different.

One thing to watch out for is that on a number of systems, tcsh has a
race condition which will cause pipelines to occasionally lock up.
cd's through symbolic links can be substantially different, depending
on your defaults.

Oh, and the completion key is customizable.

>Asumming you have a compiled version of tcsh in /bin you just change your
>shell in /etc/passwd form /bin/csh to /bin/tcsh. On some systems you can
>do this with the yppasswd -s command.

Make sure it's listed in /etc/shells, too.

-ccwf