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Re: questions
On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Shay Rojansky wrote:
> I'm not sure about Linux, but in some OSs you might have a situation
> where after a crash you don't have access to tcsh, since it isn't
> "necessary". You might reach a stage where you can't login as root because
> tcsh isn't available.
I am sorry to say, I heard that explanation before, and it sounds bogus
to me... like stories they tell kids around trhe campfire at night or the
stories at bedtime when you want them to grow to be sysadmins...
the only reason I can think of for this stories, is the /bin/sh always
comes with the OS you bought, while tcsh is an external addition. the
vendor would probably be nicer to you when you need support for a crashed
system if you use his supplied software and not some third-party
freeware. another reason is that tcsh is added after /bin/sh on
commercial systems, which means it has more chance of disappearing during
a system crash and fsck, not to mention it is about 2-3 times in size...
.*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not
-() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
`*' straight line." ,------------------------------------------------
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