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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Ken Greer's newcsh for SPARC environment
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Date: 13 Sep 89 16:25:12 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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.  You have to do a "set filec", though,
>to make file name completion work.

Some form of file name (but *NOT* command) completion appeared in the
4.3BSD C shell; I don't know if it is derived from the "tcsh" code or
not.  That form requires that you do a "set filec" to make file name
completion work.  I don't think it contains autologout code, either.

In either SunOS 3.x, for some value of "x", or SunOS 4.0 (I forget which
at this point), Sun picked up the 4.3BSD C shell and made it the
standard C shell in SunOS.  That is "honest to god /bin/csh" on most, if
not all, Suns running 4.x (and maybe 3.x for some value of "x"), not
just on the SS1.  It is possible that the SS1 runs some other variant of
the C shell as its "/bin/csh" (or "/usr/bin/csh" - "/bin" being a
symlink to "/usr/bin" in 4.x), but I suspect it's unlikely; I think it,
like Sun-2s, Sun-3s, Sun-4s, other SPARCSystems, and Sun386i's, has the
4.3BSD C shell (with some other additions, like "hardpaths") as its
"/bin/csh".

I can't speak for "/usr/new/newcsh" with certainty, but I suspect that
if you had such a file on your Sun-3, it was dropped in by some site
administrator - I don't think there ever *was* a "/usr/new" distributed
as part of SunOS, much less a "/usr/new/newcsh".  It's certainly not
there in 4.x....