From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from waltz.mi.linux.it ([195.212.120.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <25666>; Mon, 8 May 2000 05:03:01 -0400 Received: from ip-2nd.mi.linux.it (localhost) [195.212.120.11] (mail) by waltz.mi.linux.it with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12oiXg-0006RE-00 (Debian); Mon, 8 May 2000 10:05:28 +0200 Received: from carlos by localhost with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 12oiU3-0004Fv-00; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:01:43 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 04:01:43 -0400 From: Carlo Strozzi To: Paul Haahr Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: building rc on QNX4 Message-ID: <20000508100143.A16243@tango.texne.com> Reply-To: carlos@texne.com Mail-Followup-To: Paul Haahr , rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu References: <200005040845.BAA09376@rakitzis.com> <20000506122844.A13794@tango.texne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from haahr@jivetech.com on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:46:31PM -0400 Organization: TeXne.COM 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 -- I can read MIME or uuencoded e-mail attachments in PDF, Postscript, HTML, RTF or text formats. Please do not send Word or Excel files.