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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Subject: Re: Q^3: tcsh6.03, mbase5.0, and strace give me problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.222244.20300@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan5.163131.20260@fys.ruu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:22:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.163131.20260@fys.ruu.nl> hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
- >I currently have three problems that I'm sure of other people can
- >handle in a better way than I can.
- >
- >1) the linux-patches to tcsh-6.02 say they will be incorporated in the
- >next version. BUT: tcsh-6.03 will not work unmodified. Something wrong
- >with wait(), I think. Are new patches (or suggestions) available?
- >
-
- A long time back (0.95-0.96 days) there was a lot of excitement
- about getting shells ported to Linux. Tcsh hasn't worked well in
- ages, and most people have now just come to use bash or zsh and
- be done with it. Has anyone recently tried to port BSD's csh?
- I don't even remember what problems were encountered way back
- when there was talk about people trying to port it. There also
- used to be ports of pdksh and rsh floating around but I haven't
- seen them in a really long time.
-
- Anyway, it would be really nice to see these other shells on sunsite
- in the /pub/Linux/system/Shells directory now that the kernel is
- looking quite stable (at least from the point of view of porting
- non-tcpip type software). I am going to take a swing at compiling
- BSD's csh over the next few days. If anyone out there has allready
- ported some nifty shells (or even has a working tcsh for 0.99.2),
- please upload them. Bash is nice, but I miss csh.
-
- - Rob
-