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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re^2: Should ``csh'' be part of the System V distribution?
Message-ID: <3141@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 16:07:17 GMT
References: <2599@usceast.UUCP> <2601@usceast.UUCP> <10857@steinmetz.ge.com> <762@ambush.UUCP> <7924@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <7924@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
writes:
>Csh ... sources .cshrc even for
>scripts...

On 4.3BSD systems, a script that begins with "#! /bin/csh -f" will be
executed by csh without invoking .cshrc.  Note that csh was designed
for 4.xBSD.  This mechanism works well and gives the user a choice.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi