From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Oct 3 18:51:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07844 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 18:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07825 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 18:51:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA29377; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 11:50:48 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19981004115043.20303@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 11:50:43 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Mike Smith Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tooltips for shell users References: <199810032325.QAA08555@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199810032325.QAA08555@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 04:25:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message