Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!caleman From: caleman@itsgw.rpi.edu (Christian A Ratliff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest Message-ID: Date: 13 Oct 90 17:17:00 GMT References: <1990Sep28.205053.16456@cbnews.att.com> <6465@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <14617@netcom.UUCP> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 16 feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) writes: >As far as I can tell from examining the BASH documentation, BASH is a >mutated C shell. I will always prefer KSH to any version of the C >shell. >-- >David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631 It could be that you read some very strange docs, as i would say that BASH is a far cry from being a "mutated C shell". Its command syntax if the same as the Bourne shell. If anything at all is is a super-Bourne shell. ----------- Christian Ratliff InTeRnEt caleman@rpi.edu BiTnEt caleman@rpitsmts "It's all just ones and zeros" -Mr. Button