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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...

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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect
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