[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Dan Cross]

In article <unhuo7$2dg$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>In article <unhrqa$6f4$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
>Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>In article <l037lbF2supU10 at mid.individual.net>,
>>bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>[snip]
>>>I use the arrow keys all the time in csh.  Been doing that
>>>since at least the SunOS days.  Don't remember if Ultrix
>>>even had csh.  Guess I should check.
>>
>>Unlikely.  Tcsh, sure, but not /bin/csh.
>>
>>Ultrix had csh.
>
>It did, but I installed tcsh off some net repository because it was so
>much better.

Yeah.  Tcsh was more or less requisite on a BSD-ish system for a
long while.  At least for interactive use; "program with Bourne,
type with Joy" was a motto back in those days.

I stuck with tcsh for a long while until I started working at
Google.  Then, network effects made me switch to Bash.  These
days, it's mostly zsh everywhere.

	- Dan C.