Re: building rc on QNX4

[Carlo Strozzi <carlos@linux.it>]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:41:13AM -0400, Tim Goodwin wrote:
 >> 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.
 (...)
 >Sounds a bit close to `tcsh' to me :-).  But if that's what you want,
 >just say
 >
 >    sh configure '--program-suffix=sh'

Hmm ... that's not the point. What I mean is that the new additional
name should be set by the mainstream distribution of Rc, just to acquire
such name. This is especially true for Debian GNU/Linux, where whoever
acquires a name first "wins". Anyway, this is not at all a big issue,
and I am not going to insist on it :-).  Mine was just a general
concern about using too short names for programs less ubiquitous
than /bin/sh.

A more important issue IMHO is whether Rc should provide a built-in
read function, similar to the one offered by most Bourne shells; another
one is whether it will ever make it possible not to export everything to
the environment by default.

Any thoughts about this ?

bye  -carlo
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