Re: KISS'ed shell

Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello all and sorry for answering late.
> 
> You told us about the graal : there is no windows shell that satisfied me.
> 
> - Cygwin based shells  don't deal correctly with windows environnement
> -  cmd  is useless, powershell is damn slow and not line editor friendly
> 
> the best choice, imho, is the native port of tcsh by amol ... good deal 
> with windows but it is tcsh:
> - Easy line editing
> - simple completion system
> - csh programming concidered harmfull
> - no sh compatibility (forget open source provided makefiles)
> 
> Binaries:
> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/shells/tcsh/old/ to download a binary.
> 
> As zsh is the best shell ever written, i dream about a port of it. Amol 
> done it with zsh 3 but it was buggy and zsh 3 is now old.


Did you try win-bash (an old bash, version 1.14.2):

  http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/

Could you then please tell us how that win-bash compares to the tcsh 
(6.08) that you point to above?

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