From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 28 7:11:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shattered.disturbed.net (shattered.disturbed.net [205.236.147.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73502154A5 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veers@disturbed.net) Received: from shattered.disturbed.net ([205.236.147.18]:40207 "EHLO shattered.disturbed.net") by disturbed.net with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:08:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:08:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Perel To: David Scheidt Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell wars (was: What to tell to Linux-centric people?!') In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Alex Perel wrote: > > > All this means is that you could install zsh and bindkey -em to your heart's > > content. > > > > Some of us have the misfortune of only be able to run vendor supplied crap. > We just got perl5 this year on some of the systems I deal with. I expect > hell to freeze before I get to install a non-standard shell. Well, you know, air conditioning technology has come a long way in the last few years.......... Seriously though, I know what you mean. A good friend of mine spent some time working in AIX shop. He desperately wanted to use perl to talk to their SyBase databases, but the (disorganized as hell) admin staff refused to use anything that did not come with a support contract. Alex G. Perel -=- AP5081 veers@disturbed.net -=- veers@samurai.com Disturbed Networks - Powered exclusively by FreeBSD == The Power to Serve -=- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message