Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:55:54 +0000 From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, alk@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: base64 Message-ID: <E10K0Vf-0000GB-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Joe Abley's message of "Tue, 09 Mar 1999 02:44:29 %2B1300" <19990309024429.A95913@clear.co.nz>
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On 9 March 1999, Joe Abley proclaimed: > 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? http://language.perl.com/versus/csh.whynot -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Anybody who can paint a fence Tinky-Winky purple is alright in my book." -- LLB -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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