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From: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: C shell for msdos
Keywords: csh shell
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.040348.12171@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 90 04:03:48 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.071723.10409@agate.berkeley.edu> sfd@earthquake.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Drellishak) writes:
>Does anyone know of a version of the UNIX C shell (csh) for msdos computers?
>Obviously it won't do everything the real csh does (job control, for 
>instance), but I'm really tired of COMMAND.COM.  If there's no c shell out
>there, does anyone know where I might get the source to csh?

I can see why someone would become {tired, disgusted, outraged, driven
to insanity, etc.} by command.com.  I canNOT see why anyone would want
to go to csh as an alternative.

If you want a **IX shell, check out the MKS Toolkit.  It includes an
excellent implementation of the Korn shell (the Bourne shell on
steroids), vi, awk, and lots of other goodies.  Current price from the
Programmers Connection is $196.

If you really want csh, the Programmers Connection offers a C-Shell by
GW computers: $59 for the executable; $429 for executable and source.

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Earl H. Kinmonth

History Department          Centre for Japanese Studies
Univ. of California         Univ. of Sheffield
Davis, California 95616     Sheffield, England S10 2TN

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