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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Stephen Clement wrote:

> 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.

Why not?   The dietlibc one is statically compiled - would it not work 
with BL3 for any particular reason?

> > 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.

Could I create a  .profile and .login and only use them when running 
in a particular shell, after typing bash or tcsh?  Do I type bash login or 
something to use .profile?  Exit and then Enter again?  I have very little 
experience with this sort of stuff.

> > 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.

You are thinking of the 2-disk lilo BL3.  The loop version is easy to 
change (on DOS partition).

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