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From: cattelan@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Russell Cattelan)
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Subject: Re: tcsh
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Date: 14 Mar 91 05:46:25 GMT
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jjfeiler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John Jay Feiler) writes:

>Does anyone know if there is a version of tcsh for the next that will allow
>remote logins.  Our sysadmins here claim that the version of tcsh that we
>have here (I think it's 5.12 ?) is the reason that I can't rlogin to one of our
>nexts from a sun.  

>If there's no tcsh, does anyone know if bash will work on the NeXT?

I put the binary for tcsh-5.20.02 (the latest version) on cs.orst.edu 
a couple of months ago. 

But I would suspect your problem is with /usr/etc/rlogind (or was that 
rpc.rlogind Whatever) and /bin/login. For some reason unless the name
of your shell is /bin/csh the remote logins just hang. 

I tried many different things includeing cp /bin/csh /usr/local/bin/tcsh 
and the logins would still failed.
I also tried cp /usr/local/bin/tcsh /bin/csh and it worked
(ie I was running tcsh but called /bin/csh)

So what I finally did was replace /bin/login and /usr/etc/rlogind with the
old 1.0 versions (Yes! it only worked when I replaced both). Logins are 
still slow 20-30 sec or more but they do work.


BTW I know Nexts csh has some of the command line stuff that tcsh has
but if one is a serious tcsh user: csh is still really lame. 

Alos the diffs for tcsh now come patchable(?) for the reno csh sources
and the tahoe csh source. They can be gotten from tesla.cornell.edu 

-Russell Cattelan -> Oh Sh*t here comes thet wall again<-