Shells, features and interaction

Peter da Silva peter at graffiti.UUCP
Wed Nov 27 11:46:44 AEST 1985


>text	data	bss	dec	hex
>27648	1024	2568	31240	7a08	/bin/sh		8th edition shell
>67584	2048	5740	75372	1266c	/bin/csh	C shell
>81920	3072	9224	94216	17008	/usr/lbin/ksh	Korn shell

CSH doesn't have to be this big. It can be made to run on a small-number
PDP-11 with only 64K bytes of process address space. Personally I think
these shells could all do with some pruning... but then I'm a confirmed
PDP-11 fan.
-- 
Name: Peter da Silva
Graphic: `-_-'
UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter
IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter



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