Two vi questions.

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at sun505.UUCP
Fri Sep 22 11:11:26 AEST 1989


In article <20884 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>	<stuff you always want to do>
>	if ($?prompt == 0) exit
>	<interactive stuff>

I had csh scripts like this; they broke after an OS upgrade from 4.3BSD
to Mt Xinu's More/BSD.  I think the longer form

     if ($?prompt) then
        ...
     endif

will be more portable.

My guess is that when it sees "exit", csh can't decide whether to exit
just the script being source'd or to exit itself entirely.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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