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From: byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis)
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Subject: Re: echo question
Keywords: shameless rc plug
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Date: 8 Mar 91 18:47:58 GMT
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In article <1991Mar08.180955.12077@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>From the keyboard of ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey):
>:Which shell, then?
>
>One that's sh compatible.  sh itself is pretty bare-bones, but still
>better csh by a parsec or three.  There's also the BRL shell, ksh, or bash.
>
>--tom

If you want a shell that's slightly less bare-bones than sh, but still
pretty tiny, consider rc, the at&t plan 9 shell. I've created my own
public implementation of this shell. See the relevant articles in
comp.archives, comp.lang.misc and comp.unix.shell. (Gee, that's this
group!)

Byron.

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