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Date:      Sun, 4 Oct 1998 11:50:43 +1000
From:      Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@dingo.cdrom.com>
Cc:        newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tooltips for shell users
Message-ID:  <19981004115043.20303@welearn.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199810032325.QAA08555@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 04:25:22PM -0700
References:  <199810032325.QAA08555@word.smith.net.au>

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On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 04:25:22PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> If you're looking for something either to help yourself along, or to 
> help others along as they come to grips with the FreeBSD commandline
> environment, you might want to look at this:
> 
>  http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/psh.html

Thanks for telling us about this, and for the extra hints on how to get
it working!

> In the Makefile, you need to replace the "$^" construct with "$>".
> (The former is a Linuxism.)
> 
> At this point in time, it's only really useful if your shell is /bin/sh 
> or /bin/csh, as it tends to get confused otherwise.  It also needs more 
> help text contributed, and it's a bit Linux-centric still.  However, 
> it's quite promising.

It *says* it works with /bin/bash and when I tried it, psh was a bit
strange. I dunno how you wiseguys work these things out in advance but
it sure helps.

> Feedback to the author would be good too.

Shall do later, of course.

-- 

Regards,
        -*Sue*-


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