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Aucbvax.3188 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Sep 17 13:55:18 1981 csh and Bourne shell >From ihuxp!steffen@Berkeley Thu Sep 17 13:44:10 1981 I have been thinking about adding the history features of the csh to the Bourne shell. My idea is that since there is no chance that the Bell UNIX support group will switch to the csh because it was so traumatic to switch from the Mashey to the Bourne shell, there is some chance that they would accept an upward compatible shell with the history features. People at BTL mainly use the interactive features of csh, not the shell script control structures.

I mentioned this to Greg Guthrie, who installed csh at our location, and got this reply:

>From grg Fri Sep 11 15:10:40 1981 remote from ihuxg

Steve Sutphen at Univ. Alberta (used to be in uucp alberta!steve) was going to do exactly what you described, about a year ago. You might call and check...

My Unix mail message didn't get a response, but maybe someone on unix-wizards knows Steve's current wherabouts, or knows of a similar effort. There is no point in duplicating someone else's effort. Please reply via unix-wizards due to Arpanet-Usenet communication problems.

Joe Steffen Bell Laboratories (312) 462-5381 Usenet: ihnss!ihuxp!steffen

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