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From: donn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Donn Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Availability of tcsh for HP-UX? Please, respond!
Message-ID: <5570463@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 00:22:41 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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On the issue of choice of shell (and here I'm wearing my standards hat,
not my HP hat) you probably are better off learning ksh than continuing
to use (t)csh, because the POSIX.2 shell is something halfway (more or
less) between ksh and sh.  It uses the sh syntax, and in POSIX.2a,
has ksh editing.

I moved from sh to csh (with Tenex stuff) and then to ksh.  I consider
the move to ksh to have been worth every bit of effort it took and 
a lot more.  It's much better.  The POSIX shell will feel very much
the same, and in about 2 years you will be able to get it on any 
POSIX machine you may want.  No more need to ask questions like the
one that started this discussion.

(I do miss the {} stuff, but it's really hard to do it right.)

Donn Terry