Re: rm - Arguments too long

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (d1r2a3g4a5n.NOSPAM_at_SPAM.t6h7t.net)
Date: 04/25/03 

Date: 25 Apr 2003 15:21:14 -0400

K Stahl <ktsahl@yahoo.com> writes:

> Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
> >
> > K Stahl <ktsahl@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > I once had someone who had recently graduated from college
> > > come to me and ask that I set csh as their default shell on
> > > a Solaris machine. The gist of my response was that if they
> > > were going to work on the Unix machines in my lab they would
> > > learn to use Korn shell or they could limit their work to
> > > PCs.
> >
> > I consider this too harsh. For example, I use csh (or rather tcsh) as my
> > login shell, but I write all my shell scripts in [k]sh. I am sure a lot of
> > other people do the same.
>
> Yes, sometimes I do express things a bit harshly.
>
> Think about this though. What one person, who was once one
> of the major driving forces behind both BSD Unix and csh is
> now working for a company which has basically set the
> standard for SVR4 Posix implementation of Unix and the Korn
> shell?
>
> Doesn't that suggest something?

Don't know. Since Ken Thompson, Bob Pike and others from Bell Labs are now
working on Plan 9, shall we all abandon (sp?) UNIX and embrace Plan 9
instead?

Maybe the person "who was once one of the major driving forces behind both
BSD Unix and csh" got bored by it? :-)

Bye, Dragan 

-- 
Dragan Cvetkovic, 
To be or not to be is true. G. Boole      No it isn't.  L. E. J. Brouwer

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