Re: TCSH question ...

["David's Lightspeed Email" <dpainter@lightspeed.net>]

                                    February 26th, 1999
Corinna,

Where did you get the TCSH from?  Is it free under the GPL like CygWin?
I come from a background using Berkeley's C-Shell, and am always tripping
over myself trying to use the BSH and BASH.  My assumtion is that TCSH is
going to be similar to CSH. . .

Thanx!

                                     David L. Painter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de>
To: Geoff Harvey <hoaf@ix.netcom.com>; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: TCSH question ...


>Hi Geoff,
>
>if you have followed the mount point discussion, it was a problem with
>an awry installation. I don't know, what you have done in the meantime and
>how your installation looks like, but it would be positiv, if you search
>for a second cygwin1.dll in your search path.
>
>The non-working arrow keys are strange, because they are default key
binding.
>Do you have done a `set history = 25' or whatever value, you want to scroll
>back in your commands? This is needed in tcsh, to get history and it should
>be done in your .cshrc file. It's the best place for such things. Another
>possibility is a false term setting. If you are using the standard console
>window for input, try `setenv TERM cygwin' which points to a builtin
termcap
>entry or, if you are using ncurses or an external termcap file (regarding
>the usage of the right tcsh from my package), try `setenv TERM linux'.
>Both possibilities should work.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Corinna
>
>
>Geoff Harvey wrote:
>>
>> Hey!
>>
>> I just recently discovered the Cygwin Project and one of your
contributions
>> to it, a port of TCSH (I'm not a big fan of bash ;^).
>>
>> To make a long story short, I've been having a few problems when mucking
>> 'round in TCSH.
>>
>> One of the problems is the whole mounting issue that I've been reading
about
>> in the mailing list (the mounts seem to work fine under bash, but not
under
>> TCSH), but I can work around it using the //x/.. directory calls.
>>
>> The other thing that I can't figure out (or necessarily work around) is
how
>> to bind the arrow keys to searching the command stack in a particular
>> window.  Emacs commands work, but I don't know what to do ...
>>
>> Anyway, if I've sent this message to you under a mistaken assumption, I
>> apologize -- just point me in the right direction and I'll quit bugging
you.
>> ;^)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> hoaf
>>
>>  --
>>
>>   “In Russia, it takes the complete meltdown of the economy to bring out
>>     calls for the president’s resignation.  Here, all it takes is a lie
>>                        about sex.  Pass the vodka.”
>>                                    ---
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>
>
>
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