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From: tale@TURING.CS.RPI.EDU (David C Lawrence)
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Subject: Re: BASH on DECstations
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Date: 20 Dec 89 03:15:25 GMT
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   Date: Tue, 19 Dec 89 06:59:56 PST
   From: bfox@sbphy (Brian Fox)

      Date: Tue, 19 Dec 89 02:04:00 EST
      From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)

      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.

   That should be -Dvoid="char *".

Ok, I'll change it and recompile.  No biggie.  I don't fully
understand though.  If its value is being ignored anyway, what's the
difference?  Memory alignment?

      [problems with homedir of /]
      bash -login as root gave me the same messages.

      Script started on Tue Dec 19 01:52:29 1989 [...]
      =              Welcome to the Computer Science Workstation Lab = [...]

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

Actually, the above of that is just /etc/motd.  /.profile isn't
invoking it.

      /tmp/log: command not found

Genuine error from the /.profile that exists.  It has this header:

# .rootprofile: the installation only.

So I just moved it from /.profile to /.rootprofile.

      Attempt to free unknown command type `7'.

      Attempt to free unknown command type `7'.

These are coming from BASH, of that I am sure.  It seems to have
something to do with "until" because I never see any of the things
that are in either of the two until loops in the (ex-)/.profile.

      bash$ echo $PATH
      .:/install.tmp:/bin:/etc:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb

This too was from /.profile as you surmised.  I had not even thought
about it being there because I am personally accustomed to just using
the .bash* file names.  I will keep it in mind in the future.

Dave
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