Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 23:10 on 10 Dec 2006
> My vague memory of the rationale for different shell locations had to do
> with extensive windbaggery and different interpretations of the File
> Hierarchy Standard, which of course was supposed to resolve these kinds
> or problems for all unixes.

You have cause and effect reversed.

> > Why do you care where tcsh is anyway?

>  - You have some awful idiotic script you have to use that is csh or
>    (worse) tcsh based.  And somehow you end up having to find a path for
>    it, for some stupid reason.

The amount of hatefulness involved in "some awful idiotic script... that is
*csh based" is so great that things like "the location of *csh" is irrelevant.

>  - You are one of the people who likes tcsh, [...] Your company has some
>    network thing that [...] uses fixed paths to specify shells, and cannot
>    specify multiple paths to try. 

% chsh /bin/sh
% cat > ~/.profile
exec tcsh -l
^D
% #done

Compared to what I had to do to use Windowmaker on Tru64 5.x that had been
locked down to CDE that's not even a kludge.

There's stuff above here

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