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From: rodgers@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu (R. P. C. Rodgers)
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Subject: Re: Ken Greer's newcsh for SPARC environment
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Date: 13 Sep 89 01:38:50 GMT
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kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer) writes:

>From article <11820@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, by rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (R Rodgers):
>> 
>> On our former Sun 3 facility, we quite happily used the enhanced csh (known
>> in some circles as newcsh) sent out as a batch of diffs to the 4.2 BSD csh
>> by Ken Greer...

>The file name and command completion and autologout code
>were all in my original Csh mods.  I called it tcsh at HP Labs.
>After posting, the mods magically appeared all over the place, one being
>in /usr/new/newcsh on SUN-3's.  It now appears that newcsh is honest to
>god /bin/csh on SPARCstation 1's...

> Ken Greer, Elan Associates...

Ken,

Glad to hear you are alive and well at Elan.  Your newcsh certainly was
a valued contribution to the user community, as evidenced by the rapidity
of its spread. However, the csh on the Sun is not *quite* your newcsh,
as it does not support command name completion.  My left pinky still reaches
out to hit the escape key, but to no avail 8^(.  If you ever build
command completion back into the latest shell, let us know!

Cheerio, Rick Rodgers
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