From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 27 04:09:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA28316 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 04:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA28250 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 04:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10013; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 07:00:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806271100.HAA10013@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: comments in dot files In-Reply-To: <19980627190251.55632@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Jun 27, 98 07:02:51 pm" To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 07:00:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sue Blake wrote: > If I put a lot of comments in shell startup files like .bashrc, will that > slow it down or cause any other problems? Nope. The shell can read and forget a commented line as fast as lightning. > And how come there's a /usr/local/share/skel but it's empty? > (The goodies are in /usr/share/skel) For startup files for optional applications. Dave -- http://www.microsoft.com/security: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message