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From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: shells
Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:19:08 GMT
Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France
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In article <5dum9s$e1o@newsgate.duke.edu>,
Cameron Lampley <cgl@acpub.duke.edu> wrote:
>Why in God's name are there no decent shells included in the 
>standard FreeBSD distribution.  What idiot would use csh or sh.
>Everybody knows it all bash and tcsh these days.  

YM zsh :-)

>Of course 
>getting the port is simple enough, but even that is very painful 
>with no command history and no filename completion.  Ha, csh
>what kind of shit is that.  Get with the program FreeBSD.

I don't feel, uhm, as strongly as you do, but I generally agree.  bash,
zsh and tcsh should probably be "part of the system", as should perl 5
rather than 4 (it's been out for years, boys).

	Roger
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