Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why does this shell program run under csh???? Message-ID: <5981@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 23:22:38 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5981 Posted: Sat Jun 13 23:22:38 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 18:39:46 EDT References: <7803@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 In article <7803@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes: >I take your silence on the rest of my posting to mean that my account >was reasonably factual. You're taking more than I'm giving, then. All my silence means is that I don't feel I had anything to say worth posting. Your idea that AT&T (which you keep calling TPC for no good reason) was engaged in a conspiracy against the Cshell when it first picked # for a shell comment character is unfounded. I suspect if they had chosen some other comment convention you would have railed against them for not using the same convention as the Cshell.