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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!darwin.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Paul Black <paul@darwin.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 19:16:13 +0100 Organization: A Red Hat Linux Site Message-ID: <33848D6D.52D845C0@darwin.demon.co.uk> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com> <337C64F0.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5lsbv4$id8@bmtlh10.bnr.ca> <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: darwin.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: darwin.demon.co.uk [158.152.86.28] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45331 comp.os.linux.misc:176610 comp.os.linux.x:62300 alt.os.linux:21500 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3385 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41469 gnu.misc.discuss:31445 comp.unix.solaris:107358 Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se> wrote: > Steve Juneau wrote: > > > > lumpy (lumpy@cs.ucc.ie) wrote: > [...] > > : tcsh = exTended C SHell ?? > > I have always believed that it stood for Tab C Shell as it used tab for > name completion instead of escape which was a problem with SunView's > shelltool. It comes from TOPS and Tenex (it's in the tcsh man page). -- Paul Black Home: paul@darwin.demon.co.uk Work: paul.black@vf.vodafone.co.uk