From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Mar 23 16:03:45 2004 Subject: Re: Which version of Octave? From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:03:06 -0700 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > Well, let's not start the 'which shell is better' debate. Many people think > that the csh shell family is inferior; read the essay at > > http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/scs/why.csh.sucks. This is an entertaining read, but most issues discussed there do not apply for 'tcsh'. That being said, bash seems to be the standard linux shell though some distribution still may make 'tcsh' a user (not root) default shell. (Slackware used to do it some 9 years ago when I used it last time.) Regards, Dmitri. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------