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Re: [PATCH v2] Add tcsh.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add tcsh.
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:56:19 +0100
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Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> "On many systems, such as Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux, csh is actually tcsh, 
> an improved version of csh. One file containing the tcsh executable has 
> links to it as both "csh" and "tcsh" so that either name refers to the same 
> improved version of the C shell.
> On Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives, there are two different packages: 
> csh and tcsh. The former is based on the original BSD version of csh and 
> the latter is the improved tcsh."
> I am wary about using unmaintained code for which not even a web page with 
> a tarball seems to exist, and would rather opt for the symlink.

Yeah, probably a good idea to add that symlink in a post-install phase.

Ludo’.



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