<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Eric Gallager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:egall@gwmail.gwu.edu" target="_blank">egall@gwmail.gwu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 6/6/14, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> replaced bash at some point, should Apple decide it needs a newer shell<br>
> than a GPL2-ed bash. zsh also has a permissive license (although some<br>
> contributed scripts are GPL; I haven't checked the version) and might also<br>
> be an alternative.<br><br>
</div>Wasn't zsh actually already the default shell in OS X previously back<br>
in the early days of OS X, before Apple switched to bash? Or am I<br>
mis-remembering and getting it mixed up with tcsh?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>It was tcsh, following the FreeBSD standard userspace as Apple tends to do (indeed, fbsd still suggests tcsh as the default shell and uses it as root's shell).<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>
<div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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