ji@garfield.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) (01/15/86)
In article <380@ho95e.UUCP>, wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) writes: > Somebody asked if you could get csh for System V; someone else replied: > >> For a (relatively) small fee, you can purchase a source copy of the > >> "Korn Shell" (ksh) which is a fair simulation of the ever-popular csh, with a > >> few added features that are quite nice. While it is not the same old > >> comfortable csh, but it is better than the standard SYS V shell. > > As Ron Natalie also pointed out, ksh isn't like csh, it's upward > compatible from the standard Bourne Shell (sh), and has history, > aliases, functions, and all the good things csh gives you with the same > easy-to-program-in syntax from sh. (I might add that it does a much > better job of history than csh, and adds a number of other interesting > features.) A few features associated with csh are really 4.*BSD > features, like ^Z job control; if your OS doesn't provide them, your > shell can't either (ksh does the right thing with ^Z if it has OS > support, and supposedly can somewhat deal with SVR2 shell layers.) > But it's not csh, so if you're addicted to csh or have csh > scripts you don't want to rewrite, you really want csh. > > Csh is available at AT&T under the exptools system, which is an > internal software distribution system. Each tool has an official > provider; unfortunately, "NONE" is the official provider for csh. > I assume it's a port from 4.1BSD, and brings ugly licensing restrictions > along with it, so don't ask me to mail you the binaries (I don't have > source). Does anyone know its status, or who ported it? > Thanks; > -- > # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs I know that Perkin-Elmer provide both sh and csh with their UNIX V (which they call XELOS), so it might actually be commercially available. I hope this will help. #include <appropriate_disclaimers> ARPA: ioannidis@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU, ji@garfield.COLUMBIA.EDU USENET: ...{seismo|topaz}!columbia!garfield!ji ... It's all Greek to me!