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From: leach@tolerant.com (Geoffrey Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Why no job control in 386/ix?
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.224701.16031@tolerant.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 22:47:01 GMT
References: <324@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>
Organization: Tolerant Software
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From article <324@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>, by gmd@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (George MacDonald):
> In article <1989Nov19.180741.8950@tolerant.com> leach@tolerant.com (Geoffrey Leach) writes:
>>From article <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, by izen@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen):
> 
> One reason for the lack of enthusiasm for csh is that the ksh has existed for
> over 6 years inside AT&T. FYI the ksh provides all of the csh features in
> a slightly different way, plus it is smaller, faster and upwards compatible
> with the bourne shell. The biggest plus with the ksh for me is the command
> editing is either 'vi' style or 'emacs' style, I can reuse all that I learned
> from years of vi useage.

And there's also what looks like a good book on Ksh.  Sigh. Perhaps I'll
just have to retrain.

> On the otherhand, I also have gotton used to cp -r
> or rcp -r and prefer it! I guess pandora box is already open! 

Ah, a truely open mind!