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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C shell script files
Message-ID: <20382@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 20 Jan 88 06:50:29 GMT
References: <4795@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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Posted: Tue Jan 19 22:50:29 1988

From article <4795@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani):
> for interactive work.  The only thing that ksh can't do that csh can
> (that I care about) is for aliases to manipulate their arguments.  Even
> this can be gotten around by combining the alias with a function.  What
> is csh so good at?

csh history editing isn't user-friendly, but I usually find it more
convenient than using emacs-style commands (which, like ksh, tcsh has).
csh is also good at not costing anything to have on 4bsd-ish un*xes B').

(this is for the line counter)

Mike Khaw
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