- csh weirdness

[Philip Peake]

In article <2045 at hao.UUCP> woods at hao.UUCP writes:
>>  I don't see any reason
>> to write scripts in the C-shell, except for the aforementioned
>> exercising of masochistic tendencies.
>
>  I do. csh(1) has a lot of built-in execution, whereas sh(1) has to
>fork a separate process (test(1)) for every bloody "if" test. Bourne
>shell scripts, on our poor overloaded VAX 750, are slooooooow.
>

Try using a System 5.2 version of sh, it may just make your csh
seem like a snail!


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