Re: Invalid Operating System

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: Invalid Operating System
Date: 23:44 on 10 Dec 2006
On Dec 10, 2006, at 5:35 PM, jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> You presume far too much, though.  In my experience, the forces that be
> are capable of:
>   1) Keeping tcsh off the path on some of the systems.

% ed .profile
/exec tcsh/i
PATH=/good:/path:$PATH
.
w
q
%

>   2) Managing to drop some broken version of tcsh on some dark corner
>   the path on some systems which exits on exec, logging you out.

% ed .profile
/exec tcsh/i
PATH=/good:/path:$PATH
.
w
q
%

> If you think there is some clever way out of the foxhole in #2, I 
> assure
> that more or new stupidity will defeat you even still.

If things are that hateful, the location of tcsh is the least of your 
problems.

There's stuff above here

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