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From: dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: AIX "csh" silently exits from csh scripts
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Date: 23 Feb 89 21:35:33 GMT
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This may be a case of RTFM, but I've just confronted AIX in person
after many months of ACIS 4.2 and AOS 4.3, so be gentle.

Briefly, in attempting to port a large software product whose
installation scripts use the C-Shell, I'm finding that most of
them, when running under AIX, just exit without executing any commands.

Most of them begin with the convention "#! /bin/csh" which, although
probably not interpreted  directly by AIX, still should run OK
(either with the '#' acting as a semaphore as in the old days or
directly, by invoking 'csh scriptname').  However, they don't,
and "csh -v" and "csh -x" don't print out anything before exiting,
either.

I don't have a clue as to what is going wrong.  Any ideas?
Send mail and I will summarize.

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Steve Dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu
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