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From: dhesi@sun505.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Two vi questions.
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Date: 22 Sep 89 01:11:26 GMT
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In article <20884@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@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@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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