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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004061718090.17601-100000@home.astralblue.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004062234.PAA91375@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

|    How about not.  Just create /bin/tcsh, fixup the default csh.cshrc file
|    and the default [root] shell and be done with it.  Don't complicate things
|    by trying to remove/replace csh.
| 
|    In addition to my earlier objects, I agree *completely* with Terry in
|    regards to script writers starting to assume that tcsh features are csh
|    features (for example, tcsh has additional variable substitution features
|    that csh does not).

Sounds better.  It'd be even better if we can have /bin/bash as well,
but I wouldn't expect that far. :-p

Cheers,
Eugene

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Eugene M. Kim <ab@astralblue.com>

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