Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:37:02 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990728123701.A17739@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199907281128.HAA20823@smtp2.erols.com>; from John Baldwin on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:27:27AM -0400 References: <19990728051209.6291815444@hub.freebsd.org> <199907281128.HAA20823@smtp2.erols.com>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:27:27AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On 28-Jul-99 Craig Harding wrote: > > You must be doing it the hard way, Terry. I usually find: > > > > $ cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 > > $ make install > > > > works fine. > > His point is more general than FreeBSD. Digital UNIX doesn't have a > ports system for example. Thus, in order to install bash on Digital > UNIX, you do have to do that extra couple of steps that you might not > have to do with csh or tcsh or whatnot. You'll have to do the same steps with tcsh; no commercial Unix I know of ships with tcsh by default. On an aside, I seem to recall that there is an option to enable full command-line editing in Digital Unix's csh. It's been a while since I've used a digital box, though (it was OSF/1 still!). Wish they'd contributed their changes back to the community... -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator In Mountain View did Larry Wall Sedately launch a quiet plea: That DOS, the ancient system, shall On boxes pleasureless to all Run Perl though lack they C. -- ********************************************************************** 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-chat" in the body of the message
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