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Article #1368Re: flavours of shell - what is there?
From: Morten Ronseth
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 08:55
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 08:55
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In article <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes: >I realise this is a bit of an open question, but ... > >I would be very grateful for any pointers or hints as to >where I can find out what different shells exist, and what >their various pros and cons are. > >The ones I know of are simply: > sh csh bash ksh > >Are there others? Where are they principally available from? >(I've had difficulty locating ksh for SunOS Unix - is it restricted?) > >Many thanks, > Tim Here at QMW we have a New And Improved version of csh called gsh (the guy who wrote it is called George). It is essentially the same as csh, but with advanced command-line editing facilities and history retrieval. I'm not sure I can give it to you, it's copyrighted college... Morten. -- ==================================================================== Morten Lerskau Ronseth UUCP: morten@qmw-cs.uucp Dept. of Computer Science JANET: morten@uk.ac.qmw.cs Queen Mary and Westfield College ARPA: morten%qmw.cs@ucl-cs.arpa Mile End Road Easylink: 19019285 London E1 4NS Tlf: 071 975 5220/31/47 England. Dept. fax: 081 980 6533
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmw-cs!morten From: morten@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Morten Ronseth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: flavours of shell - what is there? Message-ID: <2905@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 4 Oct 90 08:55:21 GMT References: <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 31