Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:16:09 -0400 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>, phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? Message-ID: <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905102333270.2536-100000@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> <37381DF2.8B19E36@thuntek.net>
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I've heard that many times, is there any reason not to just put tcsh,
bash, etc on the root partition?
> >
> The only problem with this is that if the machine can't mount your disks
> and you need to work in single-user mode, bash won't run. csh and sh are
> in the root partition /, so they're available. If the machine can't load
> bash for you, it will fall back to sh, so I've never had a problem doing
> the simple things I need to do in SU mode. I find that the benefits of
> having shell consistency far outweigh the downside. I've got enough to
> learn in this lifetime without having to deal with csh and vi too!
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
http://stuy.debate.net
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