Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:08:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Cc: obrien@freebsd.org, nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh Message-ID: <200004110008.RAA29263@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <vqc7leazolc.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> from "Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami" at Apr 06, 2000 06:28:31 PM
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> That said, I think it is a good idea to replace csh with tcsh. tcsh > and csh are so close, there is no issue on scripting (I am not aware > of any incompatibilities between tcsh and csh commands that will make > csh scripts fail), 1) Someone writes a "csh" script that uses "tcsh" "enhanced" variable substitution. 2) I then try to run that same script on another system, with a real "csh". 3) The script fails. The problem is not that "csh" scripts from other systems won't run on "tcsh", the problem is that if someone naievely writes code thinking that the result will then run on some other box, when in fact it will not, because that boxes "csh" has not be replaced with "tcsh". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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