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> 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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