tcsh *binaries* are also available

[Stew Ellis]

gerry at seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt) writes:

>the tcsh binaries for a range of machines/operating systems, in compressed
>form, are available from a number of sites via anonymous ftp - at least 3:-

>> irisa.irisa.fr                     131.254.2.3     NFF, TeX, iPSC2, tcsh,
>> tesla.ee.cornell.edu               128.84.253.11   tcsh
>> tut.cis.ohio-state.edu             128.146.8.60    GNU, tcsh, perl scripts

>So if you just want to *use* tcsh get the binary, and the manual page, by
>anon ftp from a site, put it in your path and use chsh to make it your default. This way you don't have to spend a lot of time patching/getting
>the csh sources or take a load of crap from sys admin or whatever. 
>Warning - once you start using the tcsh there is no way back -):

>gerry

[STUFF Deleted]

I am using the following one.
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 christos student    155562 Dec 14 17:01 tcsh.sun4-sunos4.1.Z


On a Sun 4/490,chsh complains that this is not a proper login shell. Any 
explanation why not?

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