tcsh is not csh

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:37:06PM -0600, Kevin Lyons wrote:
> I have (re)discovered that tcsh is not csh although the tcsh man page 
> falsely asserts backward compatibility.  Trying to do a simple read of
> multiword variables in tcsh fails yet works find on csh.  The tcsh man page
> admits as much when one gets to the $< part.
> 
> The point is, csh should be the basic backward compatibly lowest common
> denominator between systems.  This is a real problem.  I humbly suggest that
> those that want the bang of tcsh can do a pkg_add just like the morons that
> want bash instead of sh.
> 
> If you want to try an example, do the following on csh, and then on tcsh.
> #!/bin/csh
> echo enter some words
> set line = $<
> set words = ($line)
> echo line is $line
> echo word1 is $word[1]
> echo word2 is $word[2]
> echo word3 is $word[3]

Please raise tcsh compatibility bugs with the tcsh developers.

> ------
> The fact that tcsh can not do this in default mode is beyond pathetic. What
> is worse is that freebsd didn't notice or care.

Try to relax, it's only a shell and not worth this level of emotion.

Kris

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