From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 17 13: 1: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461DE14BCC for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:01:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06729; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:07:23 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:07:23 -0700 (PDT) From: To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: Adam Szilveszter , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990516134529.0096a960@mail.bfm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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