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In <nevin-1903960356150001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:

>In article <danpop.826924583@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>> Yet another guy who has never used a Unix shell with filename completion
>> (or who didn't know how to use this feature, because all Unix shells,
>> except /bin/sh have it).
>
>I wish you guys would get your stories straight.  In an earlier message,
>another Unix troll said:
>
>In article <480fvi$let@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, Will Packard <will@nt.com> wrote:
>
>WP> Why is it that Mac/Windoze users (and even developers!) confuse Unix (an
>WP> Operating System) with Unix shells?
>
>I really wish you guys would make up your mind.  Is the shell part of Unix
>or isn't it?!?

Can you use a Unix system without a shell?  Try to remove all the shells
from your Unix system and see what you get :-)

BTW, you found no contradiction:  Will Packard is perfectly right, Unix
is not one or more shells, for the simple reason that the shells are a
component of the Unix system.  The other components are the kernel and
the system utilities.  All these components define a Unix system.

The shell is to Unix what the finder is to MacOS.

Dan
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