In article <33C24DEA.4802 at picr.cr.man.ac.uk>, Steve Roberts
<bmcsar at picr.cr.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>Bash is appealing as it supports the use of the arrow keys for command
>line recall and editing - our (ex-VAX) users are used to that! The
>standard Irix sh/ksh requirees the use of control characters. It is
>also the shell used on many other systems around the University, and by
>those that provide Unix training locally!
These are exactly the reasons why we run GCG under tcsh, which works out
of the box, and which has been very easy for ex-VAX people to adjust to
as it has command line recall etc,etc. tcsh is also the standard shell on
the Oxford central unix services.
Hugh
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