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Date:      Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:54:13 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why is csh tcsh?  This can be a bad thing...
Message-ID:  <20010826015413.C92548@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200108251202.OAA54973@lurza.secnetix.de>; from olli@secnetix.de on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:02:21PM %2B0200
References:  <20010824212042.A86744@xor.obsecurity.org> <200108251202.OAA54973@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:02:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Probably because it's just too late.  During the initial
> discussion, the voices pro and contra were about 50:50 (at
> least that was my impression), and finally the pro ones
> succeeded, probably because they had more "weight" (this

No, it succeeded because the pro's answered all the questions of the cons
and provide work arounds.  At the time I imported tcsh, I only remember
two decenters.

> _But_ my vote would be for still having a "real" csh in
> /bin, additionally.  (And don't tell me that tcsh is a
> real csh -- it's not, see below.)

By chance have you looked at the csh source in the CSRG SCCS files?
How about the tcsh sources from "day 1" in its CVS repository?
Tcsh *is* a direct decendent of CSRG csh.  Christos Zulas maintined the
CSRG csh in the 4.4 days.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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