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From: bfox@sbphy.ai.mit.edu (Brian Fox)
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Subject: BASH on DECstations
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Date: 19 Dec 89 14:59:56 GMT
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   Date: Tue, 19 Dec 89 02:04:00 EST
   From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)

   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,

That should be -Dvoid="char *".

   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                                  =
   ==============================================================================

The above stuff is either being printed out by /etc/profile, or by /.profile.

   /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.

No, it came from the local .profile.

Brian