From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 21 19:52:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24667 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA02127; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 14:21:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA09071; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 14:21:51 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981122142151.B1005@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 14:21:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Friedrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ping from fvwm2 menu References: <199811220257.VAA17779@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811220257.VAA17779@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 09:53:13PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 21 November 1998 at 21:53:13 -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 1998 08:27:59 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Well, no, I meant 'read confirmation' literally. It can be as simple >> as those two words. > > Read isn't a command, Read isn't a command. read is: $ read response foo $ echo $response foo $ If you're going to say ``yes, but it doesn't work for csh'', OK, that's correct, but the script I posted specified /bin/sh. > but I guess you needn't care... Yes, I do care. I care enough to check things before I post incorrect statements. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message