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

sindi keesan wrote:

> 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?

Sorry, I didn't know that it was statically compiled. Then my answer 
would be yes, it would work better.

> > > 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.

On my modern linux machine, .profile is only executed when you come from 
login.

> > > 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).

Sorry, I've only gotten 3 hours of sleep for the last couple days, I'm a 
little on the tired side :P . Yes, the loop version is easy to change so 
feel free to go right ahead :) .

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