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From:	malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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Subject: Re: subshell, interactive, login, etc
In-Reply-To: Mail from 'drazen@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu (D. Borkovic)'
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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.