Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:23:05 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Kris Kirby <kkirby@cs.uah.edu>, "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Music to code by Message-ID: <E10mYxt-000M0P-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 17:59:40 CDT" <Pine.BSF.3.96.990525175850.9491e-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On 25 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein proclaimed: > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > Seriously, whenever i want to see how to do something in sh, I just > > > read /etc/rc* scripts, they are reasonably commented and layed out > > > in such a way that makes sense. > > > > I ended up using Big Brother and /etc/rc* for references. I found out how > > to make a shell script accept a password. Now if I could get csh... I > > better work on getting C down first ;-) > > don't use csh for shell scripting, it's brain dead about a lot > of things you can do. perhaps someone can point out the > anti-csh scripting URL? I agree entirely. See <URL:http://language.perl.com/versus/csh.whynot>; . -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Value of 2 may go down as well as up" -- FORTRAN programmers manual -- ********************************************************************** 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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