Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 05:19:31 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Michael Tackett <mtackett@erinet.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <20000416051931.A17950@happy.checkpoint.com> In-Reply-To: <38F91FAF.E33E0D6E@erinet.com>; from mtackett@erinet.com on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 10:04:31PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004151546090.3346-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <38F91FAF.E33E0D6E@erinet.com>
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On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 10:04:31PM -0400, Michael Tackett wrote: > Second, what's wrong with tcsh? I use it, I like it. I understand that > there are syntactical differences with the sh/ksh/bash and csh/tcsh that > cause a problem, but I'm willing to tolerate that. One of the beauties > of open source/free unices is choice in my opinion, so why lock people > into one shell (or desktop or database or OS)? tcsh, like a number of other shells, has been available since forever by doing cd /usr/ports/shells/tcsh && make install. Importing it into the tree is a completely different matter and signals that it's a part of the base FreeBSD distribution. I simply don't see any significant reason for it to be there. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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