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[Byron Rakitzis <byron>]

From hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu!cks Thu Aug 22 19:57:54 1991
To: byron@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: early reaction(s) to rc
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1991 19:57:11 -0500
From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>

- the elegance is nice. I'll have to see how much I can simplify my
  environment with it as my login shell (probably a fair bit).
- with 1.1gamma at least, commands are placed into history too soon;
  commands should be put there after execution, not before. Putting
  them there before makes it impossible to get -p to print the last
  command executed, among other things.
- it might be nice to define another pseudo-signal, call it SIGSTARTUP,
  along the lines of SIGEXIT. If SIGSTARTUP is always executed, there
  should be some way of telling whether or not a shell is interactive.
  This would let people make their root prompts something arbitrary,
  for example (after a few slips, I insist on having the machine name
  in mine).

 Feel free to forward these to the mailing list and to put me on it.

	- cks