Re: 3 Questions

["Jeffery S. Coy Jr." <jcoy@red.cscwc.pima.edu>]

On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:

> 1. How does TERM get set?
>

it is set by login(1).

> P.S. Is there any advantage to using bash instead of tcsh?  Does bash
> have all the features that tcsh has?
> 

well, being a LONG time tcsh user, no, bash can't do everything tcsh does.
tcsh can do command line spell checking, has a better (IMO) built in
``which'' (it recognizes aliases), amoung other things.

but bash will help prevent you from learning bad skills (auto-spell
correction only teaches you that you don't have to spell well).  and bash
is more standard.  i highly recommend working with bash rather than tcsh,
i switched for a variety of reasons, especially for shell programming.

Linus dislikes tcsh a great deal, and also urges not to use it, and there
is a rather good FAQ on the dangers of (t)csh programming posted
regularly to comp.unix.programmer

> Also, why is there no "ppp-off" script included with the ppp package?
> 

good question.  and why isn't pppd setuid root?  if it's a security issue,
a ppp group would be in order.

jeff
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Why Linux?  source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors.
drivers for most hardware.  because one terminal or process is never enough.
    forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a gnu generation.