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To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips 
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In-Reply-To: <0106181509401C.01838@clan.nothing-going-on.org> ; from Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>  "Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:09:40 +0100."
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:59:02 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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> Files like
> 
>     tips-freebsd
>     tips-tcsh
>     tips-bash

I suspect this isn't such a great idea, and may just fragment the effort.
IMO, a better way would be to "fix" all tips to "work with all shells".

IE: "for bash/sh do 'set foo; export foo' and for tcsh/csh do 'setenv foo'
and for ..."

I'd like to see that as a tip requirement (no bikeshed intended).

M
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