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From: woody@woodyware.com (John Woodstock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: shells
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:54:46 GMT
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cgl@acpub.duke.edu (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.

They come right on the CD.. What is the problem?

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