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

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org 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
>
> zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the
> standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh)
>
> > for SW4.0.
>
> /slakware/ap1/zsh.tgz

Found it.  Why are ash.tgz and zsh.tgz in ap1 while bash and tcsh are in 
a-something directories on the linux CD?

> > I also downloaded bash binary compiled with dietlibc -
> > would this work better than the five-year-old bash
> > from SW4.0?
>
> The dietlibc bash is version 2.05
> Slackware 4.0 has 1.14 and 2.03
>
> I prefer 1.14

Does bash.tgz contain both of them?  Why do you prefer 1.14?
We will see if it works for the shell scripting class.

> Yes.  Or you could run bash on tty1, tcsh on tty2, and
> zsh on tty3.
>
> > If so, how?
>
> Edit /etc/inittab and replace /bin/sh (the current shell).

I found three lines tty1  2 and 3 with /bin/sh and will change
them to /bin/ash /bin/bash and /bin/tcsh (and maybe add a fourth vt for 
bin/zsh).  I don't think I need to also leave in /bin/sh because it is 
actually a pointer to busybox /ash and the SW40 ash is probably more 
complete.

Then I should be able to install dosemu from vt2, or could I do that 
anyway once bash is installed (and the dosemu script can invoke it)?

Could we then make .login and .cshrc and .zshenv etc. and have them 
invoked whenever we logged in to a terminal?

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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