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- *DESCRIPTION*
- tcsh - version 6.03
-
- Tcsh is a version of the Berkeley C-Shell, with the addition of: a
- command line editor, command and file name completion, listing, etc.
- and a bunch of small additions to the shell itself.
- .
- *LICENSE*
- * Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
- * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
- * are met:
- * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
- * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
- * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
- * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
- * must display the following acknowledgement:
- * This product includes software developed by the University of
- * California, Berkeley and its contributors.
- * 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
- * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
- * without specific prior written permission.
-
- tcsh was written by:
-
- Ken Greer, HP Labs, 1981
- Wrote the command completion.
-
- Mike Ellis, Fairchild, 1983
- Added command name recognition/completion.
-
- Paul Placeway, Ohio State CIS dept., 1983
- Added the command line editor.
-
- Rayan Zachariassen, University of Toronto, 1984
- Added the builtin which feature to the editor, and the code
- for lsF . Also numerous bug fixes, modifications, and per-
- formance enhancements.
-
- Chris Kingsley, Caltech
- Wrote the fast storage allocator routines (nmalloc.c).
-
- Karl Kleinpaste, CCI 1983-4
- Added special aliases, directory stack extraction stuff,
- login/logout watch, and scheduled events. Also came up with
- the idea of the new prompt format.
-
- Paul Placeway, Ohio State CIS dept., 1987
- Re-wrote the editor, cleaned up other code, and added the
- prompt routines, added to the syntax for file name expres-
- sions, and sped up the shell some.
-
- Chris Grevstad, TRW, 1987
- Ported the 4.3 csh sources to tcsh.
-
- Christos S. Zoulas, Cornell U. EE dept., 1987-92
- ported tcsh to HPUX, and System V rel. 2 and 3 and wrote a
- SysV version of getwd.c. Added SHORT_STRINGS support. New
- version of sh.glob.c.
-
- James J Dempsey, BBN, 1988, and Paul Placeway, OSU, 1988
- Re-ported tcsh to A/UX.
-
-
- BUGFIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
- Harry C. Pulley, 1992
- Coherent port
-
- Andy Phillips, Mullard Space Science Lab U.K., 1992
- VMS-POSIX port.
-
- Beto Appleton, IBM Corp., 1992
- Walking process group fixes, lots of misc csh bug fixes,
- POSIX file tests, POSIX SIGHUP.
-
- Scott Bolte, Cray Computer Corp., 1992
- CSOS port.
-
- Kaveh R. Ghazi, Rutgers University, 1992
- Fixes and Ports for Tek, m88k, Titan, Masscomp.
-
- Mark Linderman, Cornell University, 1992
- OS/2 Port
-
- Mika Liljeberg, liljeber@kruuna.Helsinki.FI, 1992
- Linux port.
-
- Scott Krotz, Motorola, 1991
- Minix port.
-
- David Dawes, Sydney U. Australia, Physics dept., 1991
- SVR4 job control fixes. (reverse pipeline startup code, and
- signal fixes).
-
- Jose Sousa, Interactive Systems Corp., 1991
- Extended vi fixes. Added delete command in vi.
-
- Marc Horowitz, MIT, 1991
- Ansification fixes, new exec hashing code, imake fixes,
- where builtin.
-
- Eric Schnoebelen, Convex, 1990
- Convex support, lots of csh bug fixes, save and restore of
- directory stack.
-
- Jaap Vermeulen, Sequent, 1990-91
- Vi mode fixes, expand-line, window change fixes, ported to
- symmetry machines.
-
- Ron Flax, Apple, 1990
- Ported again to A/UX 2.0
-
- Dan Oscarsson, LTH Sweden, 1990
- NLS support and simulated for non NLS sites. Correction of
- file names also handles the case when the / is replaced by
- another character. The editor does not switch into cbreak
- mode unless needed. The shell will not use character attri-
- butes when output is not to a tty.
-
- Johan Widen, SICS Sweden, 1990
- Shell level variable, mach support, correct-line, 8-bit
- printing.
-
- Matt Day, Sanyo Icon, 1990
- Added POSIX termio support; Fixed limit stuff for SysV.
-
- Hans J. Albertsson (Sun Sweden)
- Added the ampm variable handling, DING!, and the settc and
- telltc builtins.
-
- Michael Bloom
- Fixed some of the interrupt handling.
-
- Michael Fine, Digital Equipment Corp
- added the extended key support.
-
- Daniel Long, NNSC, 1988
- Added the wordchars variable.
-
- George Hartzell, MCD Biology, University of Colorado-
- Boulder, 1988
- Fixed the always resetting to DEL bug.
-
- Patrick Wolfe, Kuck and Associates, Inc., 1988
- Cleaned up VI mode and wrote the new editor description (in
- section 1).
-
- Jak Kirman, 1988
- Fixed the SunOS 4 giant stack allocation bug.
-
- Bruce Robertson, Tektronix, 1989
- Fixed setting erase and kill (again).
-
- David C Lawrence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989
- Added "autolist" variable and code to list possibilities on
- ambiguous completion.
-
- Martin Boyer, Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, 1991.
- Modified "autolist" variable and code to give options on
- beeping behavior. Modified the history search to search for
- the whole string from the beginning of the line to the cur-
- sor.
-
- Alec Wolman, DEC, 1989
- Added code to allow newlines in the prompt.
-
- Matt Landau, BBN, 1989
- Fixed YP bugs on Suns, added .tcshrc stuff.
-
- Ray Moody, Purdue Physics, 1989
- Added the code to do magic spacebar history expansion.
-
- Mordechai ????, Intel, 1989
- Re-arranged the printprompt() routine to use a switch(*cp)
- (rather than a bunch of ifs), and added a few things to it.
-
- Josh Siegel, dspo.gov, 1989
- Fixed "fg-editor" and added the status line shell variables
- "sl" and "el".
-
- Karl Berry, UMB, 1989
- Fixed a bug involving environ (in sh.func.c) on NeXT comput-
- ers.
-
- Michael Greim, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken,
- W-Germany,
- Fixed the nested backquote bug (yes, you can do it; think
- about aliases) in 4.2 csh. This fix was posted to
- comp.bugs.4bsd.
-
- Kazuhiro Honda, Department of Computer Science, Keio Univer-
- sity, 1989
- Added the code for automatic spelling correction, the
- prompt3 stuff (the autocorrect prompt), and HOSTTYPE symbols
- for the Sony NEWS.
-
- Paul Placeway, BBN, 1990
- Fixed character redrawing code insert bugs, and made redraw-
- ing code handle multiple character movement, insert, and
- delete (if it exists). Fixed setting of SHELL.
-
- Per Hedeland, Ellemtel, Sweden, 1990
- Various bugfixes and improvements, e.g. in history expan-
- sion, autolist, added autoexpand, updated the manual.
-
- THANKS TO
- A special thanks to: Bryan Dunlap, Clayton Elwell, Karl
- Kleinpaste, Bob Manson, Steve Romig, Diana Smetters, Bob
- Sutterfield, Mark Verber, Elizabeth Zwicky, and all the
- other people at Ohio State for suggestions and encourage-
- ment.
-
- Also, thanks to all the people on the net for putting up
- with, reporting bugs in, and suggesting new additions to the
- old tcsh editor.
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