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Date:      Fri, 7 Apr 2000 05:59:28 -0500
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, obrien@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh
Message-ID:  <20000407055928.A48528@mppsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004070553.WAA39643@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:53:43PM -0700
References:  <200004070210.UAA95308@harmony.village.org> <200004070553.WAA39643@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:53:43PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > : users I know, only about 10% use csh over tcsh and that is only because
> > : csh is in the base system.  Those people would not even notice the extra
> > : tcsh features.
> 
> Trust me I would notice the mis-features.  Once installed tcsh 'cas I was
> told how great it was.  Riped it out 4 hours later due to incompatibilities
> with these 40 year old, 20 year BSD csh trained fingers of mine would keep
> typing things that tcsh didn't like.

Sorry to add to a thread that I should probably stay away from...but...

Having used csh for almost as long as Rod has, I can sometimes tell
within 10 minutes after logging in if I'm using csh or tcsh.  There are
differences.  I haven't tried a recent tcsh port in a while, but
since there is a lot of discussion about this, I think that we should
hold off on any changes.

Just to see if my point is still valid, I think I'll go install
tcsh and start using it as my shell for a while.

-Mike
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com




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