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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: tcsh for os2?
- Keywords: unix xwindows shell
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.192541.3700@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 19:25:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.164259.10345@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> andy@huey.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Andy Poulsen) writes:
- >why can't tcsh be compiled for os/2? the sources are freely available,
- >and from what i've heard the emx port should allow fairly easy porting.
- >it'd be a welcome addition, i think (and free, at that...)
-
- Tcsh uses the fork() call, and it hooks into Unix's signal()
- interface. These two things a vey difficult to do under OS/2. fork()
- is impossible, and signals are handled differently.
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