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From: heilpern@ibd.BRL.MIL (Mark A. Heilpern )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tcsh - some more questions
Message-ID: <254@ibd.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Mar 89 19:58:09 GMT
References: <52992@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <18686@srcsip.UUCP>
Reply-To: heilpern@brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <18686@srcsip.UUCP> rogers@falcon.UUCP (Brynn Rogers) writes:
>A few people here including me are starting to use tcsh.
>
>
>1) Where should I 'exec tcsh' or 'exec -tcsh'?  
>   In my .cshrc file?   with 'if (! $?tcsh) exec -tcsh' for example?
>   In my .login file?
>
>2) should  'set history=100 ; set savehist=100'  be done before 
>   entry into tcsh or after?   I can't get history to work anymore.
>   (when I invoked tcsh manually the history seemed to work fine.)


As far as your 'tcsh' question, I don't think you really wand to
'exec' tcsh at all. When you exec from within a script file, you are
merely replacing the script file with the exec file, _not_ replacing the
shell. If you don't want to always use tcsh, then you've got to exec tcsh
by hand from the shell level. To always use tcsh, there is a command called
'chsh' for change shell. Consult your man page for specifics.
Note: if the location of tcsh on your system is not in /bin or /usr/bin,
you will have to have a super-user make the change for you.

Set your hist variables from within .tcshrc

		Mark A. Heilpern, heilpern@brl.mil

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