Using csh & tcsh

Testing and Installing tcsh

After building tcsh, you should test it as shown below:

% ./tcsh                           Start the tcsh you just built
% ...run some commands...          See how it works
% exit                             Terminate it

Point eight of the README file suggests some special commands that you can use to exercise tcsh. You should try doing some everyday work with the newly built shell, to see how it performs under ordinary circumstances.

When you're satisfied that tcsh is stable, install the binary and the manual page using the following commands:

% make install                 Install the tcsh binary
% make install.man             Install the manual page

If you encounter problems, try to determine the circumstances under which they occur. Consult the README and FAQ files, and verify by looking in Ported that you compiled tcsh with all special flags needed on your system.