Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!lll-winken!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Availability of tcsh for HP-UX? Please, respond! Message-ID: <5041@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Date: 2 Aug 90 12:47:24 GMT References: <5040@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 19 In article kim@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes: >One wonderful thing would be that tcsh understands csh syntax, which >many people (incl. me) are familiar with. Of course one could learn >to use ksh, but what's the point? A month or two of always having to >type every command twice to get it right would be too much for me! >I'd rather stay with csh. This is degrading into a shell war, but anyhow: I think people shouldn't be asking "where do i get tcsh for HP-UX" but rather "where do I get ksh for SunOS/Ultrix/whatever." Do you really write shell scripts in csh? I think it is generally agreed that Bourne (or Korn) shell is the right shell to use for scripts. So why not use the same syntax for the occasional for loop entered interactively, for instance? -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland