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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-bpclermont.fr!llaic!espel 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5dviec$32l@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> References: <5dum9s$e1o@newsgate.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35587 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 -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html