I appreciate your response. Another question or so:
1) Are shells geared toward specific tasks?... such as program creation, a shell built to specifically offer enhanced compiling and program generation capabilities? another perhaps for graphics of some sort? On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, dpk wrote: > Shells are command interperters to the kernel. Users can execute commands > from a shell at the prompt, like: ls, uptime, cp, rm... > > The shell in returns takes our input, parses it, and hands instructions to > the kernel to execute. > > user --> shell --> kernel > > Much like a graphical interface (windows) interperts to shell commands: > > user --> gui --> shell --> kernel > > Different shells have different features to offer the end user, but in the > end they all do the same thing, interpert user input. If you want to > learn more about them, csh ( or tcsh ) and bash are fairly easy to learn > and have some nice features like command/filename completion using the tab > key and up-arrow history. You can learn this from the man pages, by > typing man bash, man tcsh at your SHELL prompt :) > > This is just a simple, brief explanation of what they do however. Shells > are very powerful and have a lot of features that can take a years to > expertise. Hope this helps. > > Dennis > > On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, David Miles wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 07:13:52 -0600 (MDT) > > From: David Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: terminology/concept questions > > Resent-Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:59:50 -0000 > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.shown:;@lists.debian.org > > > > > > C shell, borne shell, ?? shell, etc. > > > > in simple terms, would someone briefly explain to me what these terms > > mean, please? > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > ==================================================================== > + dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + work : 517.353.8892 + > + Systems Undergrad + pager: 517.222.5875 + > + Division of Engineering Computing Services + + > ==================================================================== > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
