From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9832 invoked from network); 5 Jan 1999 17:28:21 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Jan 1999 17:28:21 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA11564; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:19:14 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:19:10 -0500 (EST) Sender: B.Stephens@isode.com To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: Chronology (was Re: %B%~%b bug in $PROMPT in 3.1.5 ?) References: <199901051255.HAA03909@math.gatech.edu> <990105085256.ZM9619@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Bruce Stephens Date: 05 Jan 1999 17:17:55 +0000 In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:52:56 -0800" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.27/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Resent-Message-ID: <"DoLGh3.0.8q2.Dcaas"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2011 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu "Bart Schaefer" writes: > Reviewing a few extremely old email messages, I find that it was > setopt incompatibilities that finally stopped me from using the > later 2.4s and on through 2.5. Those setopt changes were designed > to promote Bourne shell (not ksh) compatibility, by disabling a > number of csh features, and caused syntax errors in many people's rc > files at my site. Presumably csh incompatibility isn't such an issue nowadays? I think Solaris gives ksh as the default, and of course Linux and *BSD people presumably would choose bash more than csh, so compatibility with ksh and bash would be more important? I'm not entirely sure, though. Most people here seem to use csh or tcsh, for whatever reason.