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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Richard Scranton <scrantr@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: shells Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:14:21 -0500 Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3303842D.5AD2@ix.netcom.com> References: <5dum9s$e1o@newsgate.duke.edu> Reply-To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: col-oh23-11.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Feb 13 1:13:58 PM PST 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) To: Cameron Lampley <cgl@acpub.duke.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35659 Mount CD #1 run "pkg_manage" go to the directory /cdrom/packages/shells install tcsh and/or ksh This idiot still writes scripts in #!/bin/sh because he would like for them to still work if some file systems are not mounted, or the system has not yet run ldconfig. Does your mother know you talk like that? Cameron Lampley spewed: > > 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. -- ======================================================================== Richard Scranton - LDA Systems, Columbus scrantr@ix.netcom.com