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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which Shell?
Date: 2 Dec 1996 15:08:21 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.961130104832.14837A-100000@darkstar>,
Charles Mott  <cmott@srv.net> wrote:
> freebsd, so I became accustomed to bash.  With regard to posix compliance
> and compatibility with commercial unix systems (sun, hp, sgi), which shell
> would be the most appropriate to standardize on? 

If you prefer Bourne-like shells then Zsh is your best choice.

MASTER_SITES=   ftp://ftp.math.gatech.edu/pub/zsh/ 
                ftp://ftp.sterling.com/zsh/ 
                ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/zsh/ 
                ftp://ftp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/pub/shells/zsh/ 
                ftp://mrrl.lut.ac.uk/zsh/ 
                ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/shells/zsh/ 
                ftp://ftp.ips.oz.au/pub/packages/zsh/ 
                ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/unix/shells/zsh

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