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From: mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
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Subject: Re: csh on 3b2's?
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 15:29:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 15:29:09 1986
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> Why do you want the csh there?  
> 
> I can think of two reasons only:
> 
> 1)  Aliases -- but the SysVr2 shell's shell procedures are MUCH MUCH
>     better.
> 2)  History -- But there was some patches posted by somebody at GaTech
>     about a year ago (Was it Arnold Robbins???  I don't recall, if so
>     he's at Emory now).  The patches are for SysVr2 shell on SysV, same
>     shell on 4.2BSD and Bezerkely's Bourne shell on 4.2BSD.  The history
>     is different from the csh's mechanism so I haven't gone through
>     the trouble of learning it completely but that's mainly because
>     I still use csh from time to time...
>
> David Herron,  cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@uky.csnet

Get ksh (Korn Shell), it will give you aliases, history, and much
more, like command editing and re-entry ala vi style.
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