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Date:      Tue, 11 May 1999 18:16:09 -0400
From:      Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
To:        Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>
Cc:        Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>, "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com>, phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to change the shell?
Message-ID:  <3738AC29.35E46875@confusion.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905102333270.2536-100000@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> <37381DF2.8B19E36@thuntek.net>

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I've heard that many times, is there any reason not to just put tcsh,
bash, etc on the root partition?


> >
> The only problem with this is that if the machine can't mount your disks
> and you need to work in single-user mode, bash won't run. csh and sh are
> in the root partition /, so they're available. If the machine can't load
> bash for you, it will fall back to sh, so I've never had a problem doing
> the simple things I need to do in SU mode. I find that the benefits of
> having shell consistency far outweigh the downside. I've got enough to
> learn in this lifetime without having to deal with csh and vi too!
> --
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-- 
Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
        useless extension to a minor patch release for 
        32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 
        16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system 
        originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, 
        written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
        1 bit of competition.
http://stuy.debate.net
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