From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: a shell idea Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:30:20 GMT
In article <1e8m7pINN51i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>i was thinking that one could create a "super" shell which understood
>the syntax of all the major shells: csh, tcsh, ksh, sh, bash, ash, etc.
>of course, size would be affected, but imagine the power, not to
>mention the end of all the bickering.
Um, why? I would much rather have five binaries for tcsh, ksh, bash,
rc, and some other shell on my system that I could trim down if I
needed (like delete tcsh since I wouldn't use it...) rather than some
monolithic beast that contained features I really don't need.
Small is beautiful.
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