From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 1 11:43:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13849 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13833 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slip129-37-112-199.pa.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-112-199.pa.us.ibm.net [129.37.112.199]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA06202 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:43:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199707011843.OAA06202@federation.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD Chat List" Date: Tue, 01 Jul 97 14:43:50 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.9 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:43:06 -0500 (CDT), Oliver Banta wrote: >> 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..... >> >> Annelise > > I don't know if this means anything, but tcsh isn't installed by >default while csh is. You have to go through the ports to install tcsh >and/or bash. Maybe I am been too technical but I just wanted to point out that tcsh is in the packages too (as well as BASH and other shells). I find packages a whole lot easier to deal with than ports. Even someone not very familiar with FreeBSD can get programs from the packages. I would also like to add to what others have said that it is probably not a good idea to make tcsh the default. I figure if someone knows enough not to like the default and know there is something better, they probably know enough to get whatever shell they like and get it installed.