Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:26:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? Message-ID: <199707011226.OAA14311@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Annelise Anderson's message of Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:05:30 -0700 (PDT) References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970701010119.320B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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> > Why does FreeBSD install csh as the default shell instead of tcsh? > > Stanford University provides tcsh as the default shell....apparently > not being concerned about confusing all the hics from Iowa with > its added features..... Bloat. We've got sh and csh due to the POSIX requirement that they both should be present, as many scripts use them. For interactive shells, there are a lot of different preferences, and we provide many of them as ports - so you can mix'n'match just those of them you want. A lot of people prefer bash or zsh over tcsh; some don't even feel bothered by csh, e.g. due to using emacs around the shell anyway. Eivind.
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