From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 5:44:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (fep2-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7B814E30 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 05:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabley@buddha.clear.net.nz) Received: from buddha.clear.net.nz (buddha.clear.net.nz [192.168.24.106]) by fep2-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.9) with ESMTP id CAA14734; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:44:30 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by buddha.clear.net.nz (8.9.2/8.9.1) id CAA95937; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:44:29 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jabley) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:44:29 +1300 From: Joe Abley To: Dom Mitchell Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Alex Zepeda , Nate Williams , alk@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: base64 Message-ID: <19990309024429.A95913@clear.co.nz> References: <36E3BDAD.D23D5E5B@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dom Mitchell on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:54:58PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:54:58PM +0000, Dom Mitchell wrote: > On 8 March 1999, "Daniel C. Sobral" proclaimed: > > metamail. > > No. Not unless you want to rewrite all of metamail's scripts in bourne > syntax. I smell a religious issue, but what the hell... ... what's wrong with csh? We have csh in the tree. It's in the root filesystem. Although I have certainly written bourne scripts galore, I tend to write ad-hoc scripts in csh because that's what I use as my shell, and hence that's what any interactive scripts are written in. What's so great about sh? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message