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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
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Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 13:10:57 GMT
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In article <3383FA57.4855@uab.ericsson.se> Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se> writes:
>> : tcsh = exTended C SHell ??
>I have always believed that it stood for Tab C Shell
Well, there have been several tcshs, and in the case of at least one of them
the t stood for Tenex:
macbeth$ more tcsh.doc
Tenex Style CShell Command Processor
This is a brief documentation of `tcsh' (Tenex CSHell), which is an
extension of CShell and has the following goodies.
Tenex was the extended version of TOPS-10, which had very fancy
context-sensitive command and argument completion.
-- Richard
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