From: dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty) Subject: Re: a shell idea Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:00:37 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.
That would make it the Mother of All SHells ("mash")! :-)
sorry.
You're looking for zsh. If you thought the trend was away from
command-line interfaces, toward GUI's, think again!
Zsh has everything and more. It's in H.J.'s GCC directory on tsx-11.
-- Dennis T. Flaherty dennisf@Miles.com Miles, Inc. dflahert@chekov.helios.nd.edu Diagnostics Division (Diabetes B.U.) My doctor says Mylanta, but my boss says Alka-Seltzer!