Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:43:10 -0600 From: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re; tcsh is not csh Message-ID: <4195043E.8000808@corserv.com> In-Reply-To: <20041112181038.GA18108@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <419406E5.6050902@corserv.com> <4194CA3E.4010601@gamersimpact.com> <4194D4BC.3060103@corserv.com> <20041112181038.GA18108@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > 1. Why don't you ask about this on the tcsh mailing lists? I have. > 2. OR why don't you send me a patch that fixes the bug? This behavoir is described in the man page so I thought it was intended. My thinking was if tcsh wants this fine. It is just not compat with csh which is also fine as long as there is a csh. > 3. OR why don't you test to see if you are running under tcsh and use a > different code path: > if ( $?tcsh ) then > # something that will work with tcsh > else > # existing code > endif I did $<:q but I suspect others will have the same issue in future so I thought it would be nice for all involved if the csh standard behavoir was available on freebsd. >
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