On Sep 16,  8:10pm, Tony Houghton wrote:
> Subject: Re: Struggling with RiscBSD: Update
> In message <9709161719.ZM27178@picasso.me.ic.ac.uk>
>           "Robert Black" <r.black@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > The type of shell you use is set in your user entry in the passwd
> > file.
>
> As a beginner learning slowly, it looks to me that while learning the
> Bourne shell (sh) is pretty much essential, as it's the default, most
> experienced users prefer C shell or a derivative as their user shell.

A better way of phrasing it is probably that most people prefer not to use sh.
Traditionally the only shells guaranteed to be available are sh and csh, hence
the popularity of csh. Some bourne shell derivatives do have many of the
features which make csh and tcsh popular (eg bash - the Bourne Again SHell) but
they tend to be on the large side and not available unless all the disks are
mounted so they do not make particularly good shells for the root account.

Cheers

Rob