OT: btld problem??

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006, Chris Rendall wrote:
>OS X is based on FreeBSD.  You have a full command line available.  My
>Mac uses tcsh as the default shell in the Terminal application.  The
>command line is available for OS X on PowerPC and Intel.

OS X has used bash as the default shell at least since ``Panther''.

I had forgotten that when teaching a Unix class at the local
Apple users group, and one of the people there was having
problems as the sh/bash/ksh commands I was showing didn't work on
somebody's old laptop.

Bill
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