Subject: Re: BSD == NIH
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 18:02:29
csh came in with the 2nd berkeley distribution- post v7 I believe


On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Olaf Seibert wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Ian Dall wrote:
> 
> > If you want to compare Edition 7 csh and sh then I agree that csh
> > is better, but we are not. Most csh users don't seem to understand that
> > sh has moved on since then.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, v7 (the Seventh Edition) did not have csh.
> I know we hadn't, and there is no csh manual in the v7 manpages. (I
> recall getting my copies from dmr's homepage, but a quick look found
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=Unix+Seventh+Edition first,
> which somehow refers to ftp://elib.zib.de/pub/netlib/att/cs/v7man).
> 
> The first time I saw csh was in 4.2BSD on our VAX, but somehow for me v7
> has always remained the measure of things.
> 
> > Ian
> 
> -Olaf.
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