Talk:Tcsh

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Contents 1 Naming 2 Problems with the c-shell 3 Pronounciation 4 Screenshot

[edit] Naming

Does anyone know if tcsh is known as the TENEX C-shell or the Turbo C-shell? I've heard it called both, but what is the official ruling? --Curtisf14 15:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

The official site, or whoever is developing it nowadays (same thing), doesn't seem to say. Debian votes for TENEX, however, and I can't find even cursory mentions of "turbo". -- Gwern (contribs) 16:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

It's some variant of TENEX/TWENEX/TOPS-20, most probably TENEX; I was one of the early users/developers. The completion and help features were a deliberate knock-off of the TENEX shell, hence the name. (Many people don't realize it has a ton of builtin help features, including the ability to give completions and suggestions apropos to the particular command/argument being edited.) 12.103.251.203 01:24, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with the c-shell

Is it worth mentioning that the c-shell has many problems? (for example it's not possible to independently redirect stdout and stderr). Have a look at: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Still many systems use the c-shell as their default root shell. Why is this so?

217.229.204.107 13:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

The main requirement for a root shell is that it depends on as few libraries as possible. So that they can all be on the root mount. You do not want to lose access to the root shell just because some drive didn't mount. Regards, Ben Aveling 11:19, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronounciation

Despite my claim in the edit comment I now remember that I have heard tcsh pronounced as T-shell. however, the pronounciation TC-shell is much more common in my experience. Both are now listed in the article. Robert Brockway 02:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshot

This screenshot is worthless! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.177.13.70 (talk) 10:56, 30 October 2007 (UTC)