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- From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
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- Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
- References: <1992Dec31.175557.18716@cs.unca.edu> <1993Jan1.013430.16243@netcom.com> <mckeeveb.725854823@sfu.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:26:53 GMT
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- mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user) writes:
- >
- >I use the zsh here at SFU, and find that it has all of those features as
- >well. I suspect the best is a matter of personal preference.
- >
- >I do agree that we're a lot better off since the days of sh. :-)
- >
-
- Here we go ... shell wars :-)
-
- I use sh with a little thing called ile (input line editor - runs things
- under a psuedo tty with emacs style line editing) which I've modified to
- save commands to a $HISTORY fileCommand line editing with a small and
- fast shell using not too much memory.
- --
- Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
-