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From: bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: a.out 1> file.out 2> file.err in cs
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Date: 31 Oct 88 20:24:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)

From: billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)
>In article <216100007@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Is there any real reason *why* the csh didn't use the Bourne shell
>>notation for file redirection? I find the #> notation simple, clean,
>>and easy to use, whereas the csh version is obtuse and less powerful.
>
>Does anybody out there know to Bill Joy.  Maybe you could ask HIM to
>answer that one!

I may be wrong but that's ok, consider the consequences...

I believe the csh was based on the V6 shell which pre-dated the Bourne
shell.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||