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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: echo question
Message-ID: <1991Mar09.014217.23399@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 9 Mar 91 01:42:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar08.142000.27880@convex.com> <1991Mar8.163037.18947@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> <1991Mar08.180955.12077@convex.com>
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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.

has anyone looked at the rc-shell (plan 9 shell lookalike) announced
recently? the posting said it's like C but clean/easy/small etc,
and has a yacc-generated parser. sounds like a real alternative to csh
programming. (btw: sh programming also isn't what i'd call terrific :-)
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