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From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: subshell, interactive, login, etc
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 06:33:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9206261033.AA05577@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mail from 'drazen@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu (D. Borkovic)' dated: 	Thu, 25 Jun 1992 20:26:17 -0400

drazen@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu (D. Borkovic) writes:

	Every rc sources .rcrc, but before doing this defines
	certain variable (say $mode) to have certain values
	depending on the mode. 

If this is seriously considered to be incorporated, the recent rc version will
be the last I use. There has never been an uglier, more resource waisting or
more problem causing mechanism than that. I fought serious wars to convince
csh users to switch to rc and now this !

NEVER!

Malte.



             reply	other threads:[~1992-06-26 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1992-06-26 10:33 malte [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-06-26 13:57 Matthew Farwell
1992-06-26  3:57 Alan Watson
1992-06-26  1:41 Donn Cave
1992-06-26  2:07 ` Scott Schwartz
1992-06-26  8:10 ` Matthew Farwell
1992-06-26  0:26 D. Borkovic
1992-06-26  0:42 ` Scott Schwartz
1992-06-26  1:39 ` Chris Siebenmann

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