Re: tcsh

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 19:44

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In article <1993Jan6.155021.23331@ms.uky.edu> iguana@mik.uky.edu writes:
>:>	Hello.  I have seen several tcsh shells available on the net.  Is  
>:>there any particularly compelling reason to use tcsh vs csh vs sh?
>:>
>:>	Thanks
>:>	Jake
>
>Cshell is generally accepted over Bourne shell (sh) for the fact that it  
>allows shell programming in the C language. TCshell is often used because  
>it allows for WATCHes to be set. For instance, I use TCshell because I can  
>leave a terminal window open and it will update me as to who is logging  
>into and off my machine.

As he enters what is certainly a religious issue...

But Bourne shell is accepted by many as the preferable shell script syntax
despite its syntactical differences from the C language.  But the Bourne shell
is rather archaic relative the the C shell for interactive use.  The resolution
to this dilemma has been adopted by the Free Software Foundation (the GNU
project) under the guise of bash (Bourne-Again SHell - you gotta love those
guys :-) which offers a set of C shell and Korn shell features, but uses a
Bourne shell syntax superset.  When considering why Bourne shell syntax might
be preferable to C shell, I think its important to realize that the GNU project
could have based its shell on either and chose the Bourne shell.
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
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