Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:56:55 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany <michael.schuster@germany.sun.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <20000411145655.A23367@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <200004111506.IAA33450@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:06:46AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004101955260.38915-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <38F2D225.1BABE12C@germany.sun.com> <200004111506.IAA33450@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:06:46AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > My only issue is basically that I don't see any purpose to replacing the > /bin/csh binary, and there are many pitfalls (like people beginning to > write #!/bin/csh scripts that assume tcsh extensions). Just have both, > and if a few people think it wastes too much space well too bad, they > can delete one or the other. Case in point: All the scripts that say #!/bin/sh and were written by someone who assumes /bin/sh is bash. Not that any specific type of coders always tend to do that... -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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