Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (04/10/91)
How does the Korn shell, which costs money, compare to the tcsh shell, which is free ? What does each do that the other doesn't ? >Just a short plea to the folks at SGI: >Please consider including ksh as one of the standard shells. >I know the AT&T license may cost a few bucks, but it's money well spent. >-- >Vincent Fox (That's Mr. Bucko to you)|"The bear and Carl lived together in the >Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA |cave for several years until, one day, th e >SR-71: gt1111a@prism.gatech.edu |true savagery of Nature being unleashed, >Pony Express:...!gatech!prism!gt1111a|Carl killed and ate him." -Gary Larson > | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Research Associate | | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> |
sweetmr@SCT60A.SUNYCT.EDU (michael sweet) (04/10/91)
The Kron shell has functions; this means shell programmers can have the features of a real language, so they can write large shell programs that run *really* slow... Here at school, someone actually suggested that the school registration system (classes and such) be written in Korn shell! (he was seriously considered by the administration, too!) -Mike
pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close) (04/11/91)
karron@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Dan Karron) writes: >How does the Korn shell, which costs money, compare to the tcsh shell, which >is free ? What does each do that the other doesn't ? The main difference is that the Korn shell is Bourne shell based, while tcsh is csh based. They both allow interactive command line editing, which is their main bit of "value added" over the shells they are respectively based on. I'm not aware of any huge functionality gaps that exist between the two shells. I'm a former ksh user and current tcsh user, so I've experienced both. I use tcsh because I find csh easier to get by with than sh, which are the two "stock" shells if I'm on a foreign system. -- Paul Close pdc@sgi.com ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc Oh, no! You walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue.