From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 6 7:15:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2093537B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Wfyb-00079C-00; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:14:57 +0200 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:14:57 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: rjk191@psu.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NO_TCSH issue Message-ID: <20000906161457.A27426@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.3.2.20000906044214.00b81920@207.227.119.2> <20000906155134.B2108@linux.rainbow> <20000906100747.A2116@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000906100747.A2116@rjk191.rh.psu.edu>; from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:07:47AM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-09-06 (10:07), Ray Kohler wrote: > I think the issue here is not whether csh is right, but that setting > a legitimate, documented option and taking it to its logical > conclusion breaks world. The only logical conclusion of NO_TCSH is that you /bin/csh will not be overwritten. Anything beyond that is not logical. > I also seem to remember that when tcsh was > MFC'd, someone checked out the tree for any leftover csh scripts and > said it was clean. tcsh is fully csh-compatible. In fact, our csh was an early version of tcsh. > (Of course, since the current > trend is to rewrite all our scripts in C anyway, this may soon > become moot. The only scripts I've noted being rewritten recently are killall and which, both with good reason. There are still plenty of scripts left on the system, and I doubt anyone particularly wants to rewrite them in C. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message