wanted: cshell for systemV

[John Ioannidis]

In article <380 at ho95e.UUCP>, wcs at ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) writes:
> Somebody asked if you could get csh for System V; someone else replied:
> >> For a (relatively) small fee, you can purchase a source copy of the 
> >> "Korn Shell" (ksh) which is a fair simulation of the ever-popular csh, with a
> >> few added features that are quite nice.  While it is not the same old 
> >> comfortable csh, but it is better than the standard SYS V shell.
> 
> As Ron Natalie also pointed out, ksh isn't like csh, it's upward
> compatible from the standard Bourne Shell (sh), and has history,
> aliases, functions, and all the good things csh gives you with the same
> easy-to-program-in syntax from sh.  (I might add that it does a much
> better job of history than csh, and adds a number of other interesting
> features.)  A few features associated with csh are really 4.*BSD
> features, like ^Z job control; if your OS doesn't provide them, your
> shell can't either (ksh does the right thing with ^Z if it has OS
> support, and supposedly can somewhat deal with SVR2 shell layers.)
> But it's not csh, so if you're addicted to csh or have csh
> scripts you don't want to rewrite, you really want csh.
> 
> Csh is available at AT&T under the exptools system, which is an
> internal software distribution system.  Each tool has an official
> provider; unfortunately, "NONE" is the official provider for csh.
> I assume it's a port from 4.1BSD, and brings ugly licensing restrictions
> along with it, so don't ask me to mail you the binaries (I don't have
> source).  Does anyone know its status, or who ported it?
> 				Thanks;
> -- 
> # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G-202, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

I know that Perkin-Elmer provide both sh and csh with their UNIX V (which
they call XELOS), so it might actually be commercially available. I hope 
this will help.

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