Re: building rc on QNX4

[Carlo Strozzi <carlos@linux.it>]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:46:31PM -0400, Paul Haahr wrote:
 >Carlo Strozzi wrote
 >> Even calling it by it's name, that is Rc, would be reasonable. The
 >> mixed-casing would make it unique enough.
 >
 >And is the absolute worst suggestion we've had so far.
 >
 >Some of us have happily used Byron's rc for nearly a decade (others have
 >used the Plan 9 version for even longer) and the name has worked well
 >for all that time.
 >
 >Please just forget about changing the name.  If you want to use it with
 >another name, you know how to do it.  But the name of the executbale is
 >rc, and changing that is not worth discussing.

Apart from the fact that I didn't suggest to change its name, but
just to add a symlink in the stock 'make install' stuff (9sh is the
best one I've heard so far), it's interesting to see how that admittedly
irrelevant topic spawned more replies than the other two in the
same message, i.e. how about having a 'read' builtin and not exporting
every sort of stuff to the environment by default. Even if I added such
features myself -- I'm awful at C --, they would not be part of the
standard distribution, that's why I'm asking for an opinion here.

bye  -carlo
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