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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:51:11 -0600
From:      Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
To:        sub01@freeode.co.uk
Cc:        newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shell Games
Message-ID:  <41D4B08F.8020304@nbritton.org>
In-Reply-To: <gk89t09eaann18didoecusdhho0v9cc7u4@4ax.com>
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John Murphy wrote:

>Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> wrote:
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>>My personal preference is Bash. It is readily available on most Unixes,
>>and has a good selection of features.  I don't so much like the csh/tcsh
>>family, which have a somewhat different syntax. 
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>I particularly like the history mechanism which is enabled for the
>default csh/tcsh with FreeBSD.  The recent usage of any command is
>recalled by typing a few letters and then up arrow.  Bash probably
>can do it too and would have similar 'TAB' file name completion.
>
>But then - I remember thinking doskey was cool :)
>  
>
Doskey was cool! :-)



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