Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:43:06 -0500 (CDT) From: obanta@cse.unl.edu (Oliver Banta) To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Cc: freebsd-chat@cse.unl.edu Subject: Re: Why Not Make tcsh the default shell? Message-ID: <199707011446.JAA21669@cse.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970701010119.320B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> from "Annelise Anderson" at Jul 1, 97 01:05:30 am
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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..... > > 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. So if you are sysadmining your own box, I would hope you could handle getting tcsh installed and setting it up as the default shell on your local system. Heck... even hick Nebraska boy can do that. :) -- ___ ___ ___ / __/ __| __| Department of Computer Science | (__\__ \ _| and Engineering at the Oliver L. Banta \___|___/___| University of Nebraska - Lincoln. obanta@cse.unl.edu
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