Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:10:53 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: kc5vdj@yahoo.com, kris@obsecurity.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing... Message-ID: <20010824231053.U88304@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <20010824094600W.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:46:00AM -0700 References: <3B857DB1.2050904@yahoo.com> <20010823194003.C5214@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B85C895.6020602@yahoo.com> <20010824094600W.jkh@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:46:00AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Jordan Hubbard remarked > From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> > > Because of certain differences, it cannot be used wholesale as a > > replacement for csh. > > Then please enumerate them so that they can be given due attention. > This is exactly the sort of detailed feedback that was requested when > we first raised the issue of switching over, and nobody could come up > with any concrete differences that would cause harm, so the deed was > done. It blew beets all over the startup script for ROM 2.4 MUD's. It's a crappy script (who the hell scripts in csh anyway? furrfu), but it took me a good half hour to figure out what caused it to suddenly stop working. I always mean to rewrite it in sh, but I ended up just copying in a /bin/csh.realcsh and pointing it over. So yes, there's a difference. But, on the flip side, I think that the fact that it's been this long without anybody screaming majorly (after the initial shakedown, of course) kinda sums it up. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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