Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:20:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> To: Yoshihiro Ota <st96yb9t@drexel.edu> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004161618180.97075-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <0FT400HDJ1KBK6@mail.ocs.drexel.edu>
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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
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