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From: tale@TURING.CS.RPI.EDU (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: BASH on DECstations
Message-ID: <8912190704.AA02369@turing.cs.rpi.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 07:04:00 GMT
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Thanks for all of the help.  I've got a running bash for the pmax now.
I compiled 1.04 (which is what I was trying to do before; sorry for
not mentioning it) using the MIPS cc and an added option of
-Dvoid=int.  It seems to be working fine.  The following bug appears,
though, for an account which has a home directory of /.  At first I
thought the problem was with not having a home directory, but running
bash -login as root gave me the same messages.  I do not know whether
this is DEC-specific but the example is done logging into a DECsystem
5400.

Script started on Tue Dec 19 01:52:29 1989
/home/tale
netserv2:tale (1) exec rlogin doubleday.cs.rpi.edu -l src
Password:
No directory! Logging in with home=/
Last login: Tue Dec 19 01:46:52 from netserv2.its.rpi

==============================================================================
=              Welcome to the Computer Science Workstation Lab               =
=                                                                            =
=                 DECstation 3100's running Ultrix V3.1                      =
=                            and DECwindows                                  =
==============================================================================

/tmp/log: command not found
Attempt to free unknown command type `7'.

Attempt to free unknown command type `7'.

bash$ echo $PATH
.:/install.tmp:/bin:/etc:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb
bash$ exitConnection closed.
script done on Tue Dec 19 01:52:56 1989

The shell seems to function normally after that, in my limited
testing, but those messages are not encouraging.  Note also that the
PATH is not set to what I specified in config.h, nor did it come from
a prior environment.

Dave
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