From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 17 2:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B2737BA38 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10988 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:58:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA00663 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF90737B637; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA97558; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:20:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Yoshihiro Ota Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <0FT400HDJ1KBK6@mail.ocs.drexel.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > I just jumped into the mailing list because of the shell issue. > (Mail archive was not available from March 26th to April 15th; are there any > problems?) Yes, no-one wants to admit to responsibility for fixing them; they've been partly broken since 1999. > Tcsh/bash or other shells are yet optional. We have a really good system to > install such optional software so called ports/packages. We can install > tcsh/bash or other shells in /bin or /local/bin ourselves by setting the > PREFIX or some other possible ways. So, why do we need tcsh in the root > system? tcsh is an updated version of csh, not a different piece of software. We simply updated the old csh sources to the latest version, which happens to go by a different name. sh vs bash is a completely different issue. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message