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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why csh still wins (was Re: Thank you, Bill Joy!)
Message-ID: <8433@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 4 Sep 88 22:31:25 GMT
References: <2910@dunkshot.mips.COM> <194@cvbnet2.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <194@cvbnet2.UUCP> aperez@cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.) writes:
>Speaking for myself, the only reason I don't use the Bourne shell
>is because it doesn't have job control.  I've seen an implementation
>of a history mechanism in the Bourne shell in a SCRIPT!

The BRL edition of the SVR2 Bourne shell has had job control (on
systems that support it) for years, and now has command history
and EMACS-like editing.  In fact we have little motivation to
pay extra for a Korn shell.