Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!galbp!darkside.LBP.HARRIS.COM!root From: root@darkside.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Administrator) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: csh on minix Message-ID: <6194@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> Date: 26 Sep 88 19:53:54 GMT References: <6173@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM:> <5870005@hpcvca.HP.COM> <4929@saturn.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM Reply-To: kernel@darkside.UUCP (Administrator) Organization: The Kernel Factory, Dark Side of the Moon Lines: 28 In article <4929@saturn.ucsc.edu:> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes: :>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. :> I guess if I do do a port, nobody'll ever hear about it... :-) :-) :-) I have seen ksh before...oh BTW anybody port any good games to minix yet? a nice early version of hack (when they used to still fit into 64K data, text) would be nice... Bing H Bang uucp: ...gatech!galbp!bing "You are born. You live. You go prodigy: jxkh70a on some diets. You die." --Opus