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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
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Subject: Re: C shell for System V
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Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 19:27:03 EDT
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In article <9904@duke.cs.duke.edu> lhb@duke.cs.duke.edu (Pete Boyd) writes:
: We are planning to use AT&T equipment for some undergraduate courses to
: be offered in the fall. I would like to offer these students features of
: the UNIX C shell. Many thanks to anyone who has knowledge of a port of 
: the C shell to System V.
There may be commercial vendors who sell csh for the 3B series, but
they're not in the AT&T Toolchest, which is the mechanism for selling
unsupported internal software.

In article <242@wrs.UUCP> dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
: Could be a problem - as far as I know only BSD UNIX supports job control

Which features of C shell matter to you?
- C-like Syntax (for this you really need csh)
	I've always found it easier to write programs in
	/bin/sh than in csh.  Korn Shell (ksh) is
	upward-compatible with /bin/sh, and has a number of
	additional programming features.
- History
	The Korn Shell (ksh) history mechanism supports a csh-like
	interface and an interactive-editor interface which is
	easier to use.
- Job Control
	This is really an operating system feature, not a shell
	feature, though the shell needs hooks to request
	job-control service.  Ksh supports job control on 4.*BSD.
	On System VR2 you don't have "real" job control, but
	you do have "shell layers" which help somewhat, and
	can be accessed from /bin/sh or ksh.

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# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs