From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 3 19:57:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05506 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 19:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (we-refuse-to-spy-on-our-users@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05501 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 19:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id WAA11977; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 22:56:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 22:56:59 -0400 Message-Id: <199707040256.WAA11977@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu CC: francisco@natserv.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Annelise Anderson on Wed, 2 Jul 1997 03:48:46 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. >However, new users do not know enough not to like the default; they do >not know that there is something better that is not entirely different >but merely enhanced; and they don't know enough to get whatever shell If you'd like to write an addition to the handbook... -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped