On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Konstantin Olchanski
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> 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.

Cookie for me! Non-non-nom-nom-nom!!!!

Tcsh is in Scientific Linux published by our favorite upsream vendor,
with a BSD license. Feel free to fork it.