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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 17:43:53 -0500
From:      "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>
To:        unknown@riverstyx.net
Cc:        Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbie tip
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.19990517174353.0096ac50@mail.bfm.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171305520.6580-100000@hades.riverstyx.ne t>
References:  <3.0.6.32.19990516134529.0096a960@mail.bfm.org>

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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
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