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From: jonathan@turing.ac.uk (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: script-invoked editor
Keywords: elm sh csh
Message-ID: <575@tivax.turing.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Feb 89 17:32:10 GMT
References: <292@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: jonathan@cs.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland.
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In article <292@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>I have been trying to invoke an editor from elm via a script.  It seems
>to work if it is a sh script, but not a csh script.  I do not
>understand sh as well as I do csh, and it seems less capable, so it
>would be nice if this situation could be rectified.
>-David-

The main reason for applications being written to 
work with 'sh' is that it is guaranteed to exist on *all* 
unix machines. There is no such guarantee with 'csh'.

--jonathan