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From: dstailey@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Doug Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Bash question
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Date: 26 Aug 90 21:49:23 GMT
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In article <2457@naucse.cse.nau.edu> tar@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Tim Roeder) writes:
>I have just put up a file in the atari/new directory called bash-doc.lzh
>that includes the docs (from the source archive) for Bash.
>
Unfortunately, these are the original **ix docs for BASH.  After two days of
experimentation, I have started to tame BASH, but I still can't get it to
read .bash_profile.  I have the following environment variables set:

UNIXMODE=/.,LAHdbrC
BASH=c:/bash/bash.ttp
HISTORY=c:/.bash_history

and in the root directory, I had a .dir file reading:

.bash_history	history.bsh	A
.bash_profile	profile.bsh	A

with the corresponding profile.bsh set up with a large number of 
'alias' and 'setenv' statements (Actually, it was my gulam.g file
hacked up for BASH).

BASH read all the environment variables, but did nothing with profile.bsh.
Which brings up the question of how you create shell scripts when you
can't make a text file executable.

history.bsh was also ignored.  Instead, a file called .bas showed up
in my root directory.  Before I fiddled with the environment it would
show up in c:\bash, as a file called /.bas.  In either case, every time
I ran bash, it would try to execute every program in this [/.bas .bas]
file.  BASH should be trying to execute its profile, not
its history. 8-{

Anyway, this is all the luck I've had so far.  I certainly think that the
whole idea of BASH on the ST is a good one.  All other **ix type shells
I have seen for the atari have been csh clones.

If you know something that would help, please contact me at:

	dstailey@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Thanks,

Doug.






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