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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...


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