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From: Paul Black <paul@darwin.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 19:16:13 +0100
Organization: A Red Hat Linux Site
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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).

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