From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 17 15:57: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [208.18.202.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A541C14BE0 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 15:57:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Stanislav@mail.bfm.org) Received: from WhizKid ([208.18.213.131]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5 release 215 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Mon, 17 May 1999 18:02:23 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990517174353.0096ac50@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:43:53 -0500 To: unknown@riverstyx.net From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Newbie tip Cc: Adam Szilveszter , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.19990516134529.0096a960@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 13:07 17-05-1999 -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: >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. Hmmm... When the suggestions started rolling in, I tried bash on my telnet account with my web hosting company. It changed my prompt to BashNN (where NN was the version number). I really hated that and never looked back. I prefer my own custom propmpt... 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