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Old 03-15-2012
Type 'sh' into your shell and hit enter. That ought to do it. To return to tcsh, type 'exit' and hit enter.

It's difficult to know what else I could suggest without knowing what your system is. The output of uname -a would help.
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Old 03-15-2012
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Type 'sh' into your shell and hit enter. That ought to do it. To return to tcsh, type 'exit' and hit enter.

It's difficult to know what else I could suggest without knowing what your system is. The output of uname -a would help.
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