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- From: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: tcsh
- Message-ID: <ASH.92Sep4085019@ulysses.mr.ams.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:50:19 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.200153.28380@esds.mdc.com> <1992Sep3.212759.29748@esds.mdc.com>
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- In-Reply-To: bonney@esds.mdc.com's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:27:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.212759.29748@esds.mdc.com> bonney@esds.mdc.com (Greg Bonney) writes:
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- >In <1992Sep1.200153.28380@esds.mdc.com> bonney@esds.mdc.com (Greg Bonney) writes:
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- >>Somebody just gave me a version of csh called tcsh that allows one to
- >>do command line editting using the arrow-keys for history, etc. like
- >>on a VAX. I haven't got man pages on it yet, and I don't know where
- >>he got it. Anybody heard of this, use it, or have comments on it?
- >>I'll post more information when I learn more myself.
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- >I found the source code to tcsh on anonymous ftp. It works on a variety
- >of systems. So far, it looks real cool. You can do command-line editing
- >in eather gmacs of vi modes. Plus it has a lot of other extensions to csh.
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- Tcsh is a widley-used public domain shell. It seems well supported,
- with new releases coming out on a regular basis, and we like it a lot.
-