From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from natalie.ibmpcug.co.uk ([192.68.174.66]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2690>; Fri, 26 Jun 1992 10:07:21 -0400 Received: by natalie.ibmpcug.co.uk id aa29012; 26 Jun 92 15:04 BST Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by natalie.ibmpcug.co.uk id aa29004; 26 Jun 92 15:03 BST X-Phone-Work: +44 81 863-1191 X-Fax-Work: +44 81 863-6095 X-Favourite-Colour: black, of course. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.1.2 7/11/90) To: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Subject: Re: subshell, interactive, login, etc Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 09:57:23 -0400 From: Matthew Farwell Sender: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk Message-ID: <9206261457.aa02134@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> In article <9206261033.AA05577@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> you write: >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 ! Now that you come to mention it, I think it'd be the same for me too. Dylan. -- It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear -- Douglas Adams