From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.libero.it ([193.70.192.51]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <24842>; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:33:18 -0400 Received: from LocalHost (151.15.135.83) by smtp1.libero.it; 28 Apr 2000 10:46:26 +0200 Received: from carlos by localhost with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 12ksGS-00040W-00; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:39:48 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:39:48 -0400 From: Carlo Strozzi To: rc Subject: Re: building rc on QNX4 Message-ID: <20000427193948.A15307@tango.texne.com> Reply-To: carlos@texne.com Mail-Followup-To: rc References: <20000426110230.A12715@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000426110230.A12715@localhost>; from sroberts@uniserve.com on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:02:31AM -0400 Organization: TeXne.COM On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:02:31AM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote: > >rc looks really good to me, so I built it over the weekend, and I agree, it is a neat shell, much better than Bourne and derivatives for scripting. I am awful at C programming, but I think adding a few addons to rc should be easy. The only thing that I really miss is a 'read' builtin. Using line(1) did not work, at least on Linux, apart from the fact that being line(1) an external process it is not really efficient, as it is often called from inside a loop. Also, I think that the name 'rc' is sometimes a too short one. On AIX, for instance, it conflicts with the system startup script /etc/rc. I use Linux, so that's not a problem for me, nevertheless I would really like that the default 'make install' stuff set up a symlink to rc with a longer and more meaningful name, like 'rcsh'. cheers -carlo -- Attachments only in HTML/RTF/Postscript please ! Per favore solo attachments in formato HTML/RTF/Postscript !