On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:47:12PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 2 October 2014 18:01, Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > > Tcsh: 1981 (file-completion feature merge with csh)
> >
> > But go 1 step beyound wikipedia ...
>
> You didn't follow the links in the reference section
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/net.sources/BC0V7oosT8k/MKNdzEG_c3AJ
> 

In fact, I did go there and read it. It is a patch to the BSD /bin/csh.

Useless for those without access to sources of /bin/csh.

When I started using SGI IRIX in 1992 we did not have the sources for /bin/csh,
so no tcsh for us until version 6.0 came out a few years later.

If you had tcsh before version 6.0, buy yourself a cookie. I only saw the BSD sources
for the first time when 4.4BSD-Lite was released on CDs around 1994-1995. Still have those CDs,
still remember the excitement and the joy.

> 
> I remember that all the profs at college had tcsh instead of csh because
> before the VAX11/750 with BSD 4.2 they had all been using tops-20 and hated
> basic unix lack of features that tcsh gave them.
> 

Well, in Soviet Russia we did not have no VAXes. We had PDP-11 clones that booted
RT-11SJ from 8" floppies and ran Tetris. (the normal tetris, not the "slowed down for Westerners"
version you get from "google play").

>
> The link on bash is at
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/gnu.announce/hvhlR1Vn1P0/NYwp-4_0CaUJ
> 

I am too bored by the history of tcsh already. Maybe some other time.

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