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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:04:58 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:59:02PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> > Files like
> >=20
> >     tips-freebsd
> >     tips-tcsh
> >     tips-bash
>=20
> 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".
>=20
> IE: "for bash/sh do 'set foo; export foo' and for tcsh/csh do 'setenv foo'
> and for ..."

Most of the tips do that.  It's the one liners that start

    Nice bash prompt: ...

or

    Nice tcsh prompt: ...

that won't.

N
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve             http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Documentation Project           http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/

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