Interrupted UNIX FAQ

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 19 21:41:55 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 12-06-18 01:07 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/interrupted.html
>>
>> The tcsh question won't make much sense to other than those of us that:
>
>
> Cute FAQ. I don't know what the "t" in tcsh stood for but I do remember
> having to do rehash after some changes so tcsh could find some commands.

T is for TENEX, an OS that ran on PDP-10 systems a long, long time ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20#TENEX

The TENEX feature that many of us use all the time is the notion of
tab-completion of arguments in the shell.
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