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- From: wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl (Wessel Dankers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: UNIX Shells vs Amiga Shell (Was: Re: toy operating systems, like AmigaOS)
- Date: 20 Apr 96 22:13:16 +0100
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Message-ID: <1105.6684T1333T810@cs.ruu.nl>
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- howard daniel joseph <djhoward@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
- > Wessel Dankers (wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl) wrote:
- >: Kenneth C. Nilsen <kenneth@norconnect.no> wrote:
-
- >: > Actally, the AmigaDOS is very much based on UNIX shell. The way it
- >: > handles arguments, flags, stdIO and so on.
-
- >: > AmigaDOS/Shell is one of the most powerful command interfaces there is.
-
- >: I often have to use UNIX, and I find tcsh a pain, compared to Amiga
- >: CLI/Shell. Does anybody know which UNIX shell comes closest to the Amiga
- >: one?
-
- > What, exactly, is wrong about tcsh? :)
-
- TAB-completion sucks, compared to KingCON's, it doesn't do a uniq on command
- history, and in /my/ version all keys like backspace and delete are remapped to
- *vi* keys! :-$ This last thing seems to be a quirk of cs.ruu's version. When I
- get a previous command back, I first have to type #i# to change it.
-
- When I install a new program in ~/bin, I have to start a new tcsh because the
- old one can't find it.
-
- Small but annoying things.
-
- > ksh is a bitch-monkey, for sure ...
-
- I only use sh and ksh for scripting.
-
- --
- Wessel Dankers
-
- "Nusuth."
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