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To: Marc Baudoin <babafou@babafou.eu.org>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: root, toor, csh, sh... (LONG)
References: <19990316215545.A267@skiff.babafou.eu.org>
From: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 1999 16:40:46 -0700
In-Reply-To: Marc Baudoin's message of Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:55:46 +0100
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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Baudoin <babafou@babafou.eu.org> writes:

Marc> Anyway, one thing I won't like in NetBSD is tampering with sh to
Marc> add line editing capabilities or some other goodies.  On many
Marc> Linux systems, where /bin/sh is in fact a bash, I've had a lot
Marc> of problems because bash don't behave exactly like a plain
Marc> Bourne shell.  Please don't do the same mistake.

Been there for a long time already.  Try "set -o emacs" sometime.

Chris

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