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 > > --- > Want to design your own web counter? > Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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