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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C shell script files
Message-ID: <448@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 16:21:46 GMT
References: <65200004@convexe>
Reply-To: amos%taux01@nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Home of the 32532
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Summary: Forget it
Hdate: 29 Tevet 5748


Better forget it! Use csh for interactive work, sh (or ksh) for command
files. The command interface of csh is horrible: you can't nest if's and
while's, keywords must be first on their line, you can't freely interchange
semicolons with new-lines, you can't pipe the output of while's, etc, etc.
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	Amos Shapir			(My other cpu is a NS32532)
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