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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 13:07:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>
Cc:        Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbie tip
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171305520.6580-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990516134529.0096a960@mail.bfm.org>

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But I'd suggest bash instead.  Ref. "C Shell Programming Considered
Harmful" by Tom Christiansen (47.02 Unix Power Tools, 'coz I can't find
the original).  It's not just scripting that tcsh is crippled in -- it's
just general command line stuff.  Ick.

---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet


On Sun, 16 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:

> At 16:51 16-05-1999 +0200, Adam Szilveszter wrote:
> >Consider trying bash (the shell of choice for most Linux distribs) or
> >tcsh, all of which are available in the /usr/ports/shells directory. 
> 
> Ah! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Koszonom szepen!!!
> 
> I got tcsh, and it is soooooooo much better!!!
> 
> >Caution: As many have said here already, don't change the root shell to
> >anything other from sh or csh because that's a really bad idea.
> 
> Why is it a bad idea?
> 
> >I hope it helps.
> 
> Yes, it did. Thanks again!
> 
> Adam
> 
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