Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!paul From: paul@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Paul Burchard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: tcsh Summary: csh != tcsh Message-ID: <1991Mar14.051506.1851@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 14 Mar 91 05:15:06 GMT References: <1991Mar12.072203.12123@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar12.162045.10918@math.ucla.edu> Sender: Paul Burchard Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago Lines: 21 In article <1991Mar12.162045.10918@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: >In article <1991Mar12.072203.12123@nntp-server.caltech.edu> jjfeiler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John Jay Feiler) writes: >> >>If there's no tcsh, does anyone know if bash will work on the NeXT? >> >as pointed out, the nexts own csh is really a CMU-shell that supports >almost all tcsh amenities. > One of the tcsh features NeXT-csh doesn't support is a rich prompt---one of my favorites. For example, I put the current directory (as well as my current host) into my prompt, which really helps when I'm jumping around directories and machines. (A command-line emulation of the Browser, if you like. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Burchard ``I'm still trying to learn how to count backwards from infinity...'' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------