ok, thanks; tcsh is in /etc/shells (of course i knew that) - but it still
misbehaves :-(


>
>The same arguments go for sh vs. bash.

ok, and supposing that i'm working on the assumption that my system will
never die as described -? surely that'd be ok - to use say tcsh?

>
>> is bash fully comaptible with sh or csh? would *that* be an acceptable
>> replacement? does anyone have bash compiled for netbsd? :-)
>
>bash is a superset of sh, just like tcsh is a superset of csh. And yeah,
>bash is easy to compile under NetBSD :-)

any helpful urls :-) ?
sunsite is quite big to search thru and not logically organised at all.

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