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From: billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: a.out 1> file.out 2> file.err in cs
Message-ID: <187@celerity.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 22:43:21 GMT
References: <4470006@hpindda.HP.COM> <216100007@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <182@celerity.UUCP> <4060@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)
Organization: FPS Computing, San Diego CA
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In article <4060@encore.UUCP> bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>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
			      ^^
			      typo
>>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||

This could be wrong but I am basing my belief of authorship on the Berkeley
4.2 manual page for csh which says:

AUTHOR
	William Joy.  Job control and directory stack features first
	implemented by J.E. Kulp of I.I.A.S.A, Laxenburg Austria, with
	different syntax than that used now.

But then Berkeley manuals have lied to me before :-).

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I am no Richard Nixon!                                 ....!ucsd!celerity!billd