vi bug, or how to set up .cshrc

Kim Christian Madsen kimcm at diku.UUCP
Sun Aug 11 16:12:15 AEST 1985


In article <2585 at sun.uucp> gnu at sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>KEITH F. PILOTTI of TeleSoft said:
>>     Under 4.2BSD, the best solution seems to be the following:
>> 
>>         set path = ( . ~ ~/bin ~/frammis /usr/ucb /usr/bin /bin )
>>         if ( ! $?prompt ) exit
>>         ...
>>         <rest of your (interactive) run commands>
>
>Actually, the "set path" is not needed.  Path is put into the
>environment variable PATH, which persists across all processes you
>create.  Set it in your .login .

Well, I agree that it should be superflous to set the path other places
than in your login. But if you are about to pipe data through a remote shell
(rsh) the path variable will be needed in your .cshrc or you will have to
give full pathname on the remote system.

					Regards
					Kim Chr. Madsen
				a.k.a.	kimcm at diku.uucp



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