Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: C-shell on System V shell Message-ID: <10449@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 16:09:36 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.10449 Posted: Thu Nov 19 16:09:36 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 02:45:07 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 37 From: Ken Latham Get yourself a copy of the Korn shell (ksh). Nice program, from what I read (a copy of the man page). If you have AT&T Sys V r2.1 or later, I believe that you should already have it. If not you could talk to your administrator about getting. Not so. We have a copy of System V release 2 version 2. No KSH. ( If you are the Admin, Call AT&T ). Not something I would look forward to. [description of ksh features deleted] As far as Csh programming though, forget it. Csh was never very good as a programming language anyway. Ksh expands shell's programability with defineable variable types, arrays, functions and mathmatical expression calculation. Oh really? I suppose you don't like C language either. I would rather write scripts in csh anyday because I already know C, rather than learn that strange language the Bourne shell uses. No, csh has always been the superior interface, it just has more bugs than the Bourne shell. I welcome the appearance of ksh, but doubt I'll ever see it unless SUN includes it in one of its releases. I currently use tcsh. Ken Latham ihnp4!ablnc!latham AT&T UNIX Technical Support (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 UH-OH!! We're out of AUTOMOBILE PARTS and RUBBER GOODS!