Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!decwrl!labrea!agate!saturn!ssyx!koreth From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: csh on minix Message-ID: <4929@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 24 Sep 88 17:20:21 GMT References: <6173@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> <5870005@hpcvca.HP.COM> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Organization: The Mad Scientists' Guild Lines: 20 In article <5870005@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes: >>::> I want to put csh on my minix. >>:: Why on Earth would anyone want to clone that mess? :-) >> Because they're smart? >No. Because they've never used ksh. How about: - Because they're used to csh from another system. - Because they have lots of csh scripts that they'd rather not convert. - Because they like the way csh does some things (history, for instance). And, maybe the most important reason for a hacker: - Because it's there. --- These are my opinions, and in no way reflect those of UCSC, which are wrong. Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu uunet!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth