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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Using exit in a Bourne shell script
Summary: Read the subject line
Message-ID: <568@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 88 09:46:32 GMT
References: <16540@brl-adm.ARPA> <4664@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <3733@okstate.UUCP> goog@okstate.UUCP (GOOG ??) writes:
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|I had this problem also, and to combat it I put a line in my .login (not
|.logout...) that states:
|
|set ignoreeof
|
|and that does it.  It will allow you to use Ctrl-D from anywhere to quit things

In article <4664@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
|How about 
|	set ignoreeof
|in your .cshrc. This will prevent you from doing what you're fearing, namely

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Boys, read the subject line. It says: ... in a Bourne shell script.
set ignoreeof is csh stuff.

        Leo.