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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> On a BL3 laptop 486 I just installed bash and tcsh packages from SW4.0 
> for use in a 'unix shell scripting' class.  I could not find Korn 
> shell for SW4.0.  Did I miss any others?

Don't think so!

> I also downloaded bash binary compiled with dietlibc - would this work 
> better than the five-year-old bash from SW4.0?

I'm not sure that it would work at all.

> In order to practice writing scripts in the different shells, is it 
> sufficient just to have bash and tcsh on there, or must I set up a 
> couple of user accounts, one for each shell?  I have not been closely 
> following the method of doing this on a linux designed to work as 
> single-user (and I hope it is not necessary).  Perhaps it would be 
> helpful to practice using .profile, .login and .cshrc on different 
> accounts?

It is sufficient to just have them on there.

> Instead of setting up user accounts, could I convert the loop bl3 to 
> bash and the hd bl3 to tcsh?  If so, how?

You'd have to edit the first disk (a pain) in BL3, although converting 
hd bl3 would be quite simple, you would just have to type tsch and you 
would have tcsh running.

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