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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.179.98.2!news.visigenic.com!news From: Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: shells Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:31:04 +0000 Organization: Visigenic Software, Inc. Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3302D148.4BB6@visigenic.com> References: <5dum9s$e1o@newsgate.duke.edu> Reply-To: toneil@visigenic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: vsi48.visigenic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35383 Cameron Lampley 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. 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. You get alternate shells right on the cd... get with the program.