Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

[David O'Brien]

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.

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