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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: FIX: UUCP, !, bash and smail
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 20:04:54 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- In article <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
-
- >Bash really pissed me off too --for the same reason. I think linux
- >should have a nondescript plain-jane bourne shell for system level
- >functions. Having to hack sources for os compatibility is one thing,
- >but having to do it for shells is pretty bizarre.
-
- If you don't like csh-style history, start bash with the +H option, or
- use `set +H', or type `histchars='. This is all documented in the man
- page, at least the one I wrote. You could put it in /etc/profile, if
- you like it that little.
-
- >While I'm whining, is there any documentation available to fill the
- >gaping holes in the man pages?
-
- Please be more specific about the `gaping holes'. I have changed the
- manual page quite a bit since the 1.12 release; perhaps the updated
- version will satisfy you.
-
- Chet
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- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
-
- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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