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From: mday@icon.com (Matt Day)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: : t modifier in tcsh and csh
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.235534.1861@icon.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 23:55:34 GMT
References: <10186@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Sanyo Icon
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In article <10186@star.cs.vu.nl> mgemmel@cs.vu.nl (Martin Gemmel) writes:
>I have a script, called bin/script, which looks like:
>echo $0:t
>
>Doing  'csh -f bin/script' yields: 'bin/script:t'
>Doing 'tcsh -f bin/script' (correctly) yields: 'script'
>
>Csh clearly doesn't do the Right Thing, but why?
>(tcsh is version 5.18)

Looks like yet another csh bug, one that isn't fixed in Tahoe 4.3BSD.  If
you want the hundreds of dinky csh bugs like this to go away, plus lots of
nice extensions, then use tcsh (FTP from tesla.ee.cornell.edu).
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- Matt Day, Sanyo Icon R&D, mday@icon.com