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- From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: FIX: UUCP, !, bash and smail
- Message-ID: <HJD8TB3w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 00:22:04 GMT
- References: <1e11p6INNl71@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
- Lines: 42
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- chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
-
- > In article <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpat
- >
- > >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.
-
- Ah! What I was hoping to have was the ability to have it change it's
- mode by what name it was invoked as. So that if called as 'sh' it
- wouldn't have the user-options like history, etc.
-
- > >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.
-
- I had no idea that bash had a man page. I have the sls package and it
- isn't a part of what I managed to get, I guess. By gaping holes, I was
- speaking in terms of the many utilities that go with linux whose man
- pages aren't a part of the bundled software.
-
- I meant no personal assaults. Until I read the recently posted article
- on bad block isolation, I had no clue as to what the options in fsck
- would do. It reacted differently than other fsck utilities I've used
- with bsd and sysv unii, and early xenix. Of course discovering that a
- part of fsck didn't really work cleared up some of that confusion. (-:
-
- Bash itself is fine, a good stable shell. It was just over-helping.
-
-
- ---
- Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
-