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- From: yeates@rtsg.mot.com (Tony J Yeates)
- Subject: zsh was Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:53:24 GMT
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- cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
-
- >Tom Christiansen writes
- >> From the keyboard of barr@darwin.psu.edu (David Barr):
- >>
- >> There are so so many limitations. I just don't think it
- >> feasible to try to take care of all of them.
-
- >And most of all why would anyone bother ? To see how much effort, talent and
- >good ideas have gone into tcsh is almost heart-rending. I've previously
- >publicly asked for any good reason to continue to use csh descended shells
- >instead of eg. zsh and been met only with resounding silence.
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- > Carl Edman
-
- tcsh has an excellent use interface (i.e. command line editing),
- incorporating the best features of ksh, csh and 4DOS IMHO. Its
- also backward compatible with tcsh (a painless transition).
-
- I've never used zsh, and haven't heard any rave-reviews ...
- is this something special or just another free shell?
- Whats the associated programming language like? (If
- its not Bourne Shell, ksh, REXX, perl or csh compatible - forget
- it, there are too many shell language alternatives already!)
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