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> From oferm@NetVision.net.il Thu Feb  8 12:10 IST 1996
> From: Ofer Maor <oferm@NetVision.net.il>
> To: "Israeli Linux users list" <Linux-il@hagiga.jct.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: questions 
> Date: Thu,  8 Feb 96 12:01:36 GMT
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> 
> errr... who said anything about some OS's... as far as I remember... this is 
> linux-il, and those were linux oriented questions! in linux - no reason why 
> NOT to use tcsh. 
> 
> --- On Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:01:33 +0200 (IST)  Shay Rojansky 
> <roji@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Ofer Maor wrote:
> >
> >> quite bullshit ;)
> >> 
> >> all scripts can be still on bash, while the shell you work in is on tcsh. 
> >> when you run a script, the shell it's on is runned again anyway. unless a 
> >> shell is specified in the first line in #!/bin/blabla - then it will 
> invoke 
> >> the current shell - but every normal shell DOES have this line on top. I 
> run 
> >> root as tcsh (although I know bash is better, but I am just used for tcsh, 
> 
> >> what can I do... :) - and everyting works just fine.
> >
> >Quite not bullshit ;)
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Shay
> >
> >--
> >Shay Rojansky, roji@cs.huji.ac.il                 Finger for PGP public key
> >
> >
> >
> 
> -----------------End of Original Message-----------------
> 
> 
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> Ofer Maor                                                   IRC Nick: Slarti
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	There is only one reason not to use tcsh and not to copy it to bin:
the root can log in into any workstation in the network without 
taking care about the login shell: it will be the same, even if mounts
have failed and there is no /bin/[t]csh locally.
Besides, it is not very common to put new things into /bin,
the upgrade can spoil everything.
	But if you are root at your home and not connected to network
( besides some PPP/SLIP connection ), why not?


			Yuri Shirman ( yuri@orbotech.co.il )