On May 22, 11:32pm, hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE (Hauke Fath) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: using tcsh as default root shell

| At 6:05 Uhr +0200 22.5.2000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| >Tcsh is too bloated, and our csh has most of the bug fixes from tcsh.
| >You are moving to the slippery slope of s/csh/tcsh/ and s/sh/bash/
| >which is not desirable...
| 
| While it may be bold to object to the author of tcsh... I run tcsh as
| root's default (multi-user) shell since '95. Last I looked, our csh(1)
| still did not offer command-line editing.
| 
| AFAIK, Apple ships tcsh in place of csh as root default shell with MacOS X
| Server.

Oh, everyone has the right to his own opinion. And if there is enough
momentum, I will not oppose the change. It is just my opinion, that tcsh
is too much of a pig, and it is broken in many ways the same way that
csh is. The fact that csh is smaller and less complex makes it more
manageable. Being the author of tcsh does not add any more or less
value to that opinion.

christos