From kim at netbsd.org  Mon Jan  3 08:41:47 2022
From: kim at netbsd.org (Kimmo Suominen)
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 10:41:47 +0200
Subject: [Tcsh] tcsh-6.23.02 is now available
Message-ID: <CADbbPnEzyvqzFitSni0eCy9fVC3ELyoVz1+NBD_-FWxA0O_oSA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I've released tcsh-6.23.02 with just one minor change: the \U escape
sequence now allows up to 8 hex digits. This matches what other shells
do.

- ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.23.02.tar.gz
- RMD160 (tcsh-6.23.02.tar.gz) = 89be6ea7707b065488cd3590cec85a04cd05f00e
- Signed by me, public key: https://kimmo.suominen.com/pgp-key/

I'm planning to release tcsh-6.24.00 on February 2nd. Unless there are
any important fixes in the meantime, it will just be the exact same
code with the version number and date bumped.

Kind regards,
+ Kimmo

From tcsh at tux.freedom.nl  Mon Jan  3 09:05:20 2022
From: tcsh at tux.freedom.nl (H.Merijn Brand)
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 10:05:20 +0100
Subject: [Tcsh] tcsh-6.23.02 is now available
In-Reply-To: <CADbbPnEzyvqzFitSni0eCy9fVC3ELyoVz1+NBD_-FWxA0O_oSA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CADbbPnEzyvqzFitSni0eCy9fVC3ELyoVz1+NBD_-FWxA0O_oSA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20220103100520.5a3e873f@pc09>

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 10:41:47 +0200, Kimmo Suominen <kim at netbsd.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've released tcsh-6.23.02 with just one minor change: the \U escape
> sequence now allows up to 8 hex digits. This matches what other shells
> do.

Thank you! I'll install that on my boxes ASAP and report if something is
not going as expected!

Best wishes to all!

> - ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.23.02.tar.gz
> - RMD160 (tcsh-6.23.02.tar.gz) = 89be6ea7707b065488cd3590cec85a04cd05f00e
> - Signed by me, public key: https://kimmo.suominen.com/pgp-key/
> 
> I'm planning to release tcsh-6.24.00 on February 2nd. Unless there are
> any important fixes in the meantime, it will just be the exact same
> code with the version number and date bumped.
> 
> + Kimmo

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From tateusg at hotmail.com  Mon Jan 31 08:18:30 2022
From: tateusg at hotmail.com (M G P)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:18:30 +0000
Subject: [Tcsh] Compliments to the developers and contributors.
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And I'm very proud to find another, better workaround to the criticism in the Wikipedia webpage:
# Always creates an empty file
if (! -e myfile) echo mytext > myfile
# Workaround
if (! -e myfile) eval "echo mytext > myfile"
My workaround<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1069012614>:
( ( : < myfile ) >& /dev/null && echo File exists. ) || ( ( echo mytext > myfile ) >& /dev/null && echo File created. ) || ( echo Cannot create file. )



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From: Tcsh <tcsh-bounces at astron.com> on behalf of M G P <tateusg at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021, 03:05
To: tcsh at astron.com
Subject: [Tcsh] Compliments to the developers and contributors.

Hello.
Just did like to leave a comment in here, thanking the developers and contributors of Tcsh.

The C Shell is such a brilliant work from Bill Joy, and Tcsh makes a great enhancement and continuation to it. Furthermore, the C Shell is the only Shell out there which resembles the Thompson and Mashey Shells, which (unfortunately) were superseded by the Bourne Shell.

I'm not a long-time Tcsh user, however, after learning it, it really fascinated me - so much that I keep wondering how some dislike it.
To be fair, Tcsh taught me how to write scripts with security in mind, due its "limitations". The "limitations" imposed by the C Shell make it one of the most reliable Shells to work with, and I should not complain, but thank for that. (E.g: nesting commands is impossible; there are better ways to achieve what one want, without nesting commands.)

I really have no complaints to C Shell or Tcsh, but I must thank each of you who keep the development of an old brilliant gem from Bill Joy and Ken Greer up.
Thank you very much for your time and effort!

P.S: the complaints from a Perl developer in faqs.org are plain petty; something I learned very quickly is that most things can be worked-around with sub-shells or named FIFOs.

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