On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 17:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-08 14:42, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >>> I haven't yet tried chsh to find out what will >>> happen but am in a position to do that on a throwaway account created >>> for the purpose and find out. >> >> I wouldn't use dash as my login shell, it lacks readline support which >> I am relying heavily on and I'd be suprised to hear YMDV. > > Yech. An interactive shell w/o readline is useless! Please don't be that harsh, here's another section of "Siggy's musings about early *nix days": For short, when you don't have readline you develop a habit of writing tiny #!/bin/sh <wink> scripts with the help of ed(1) (no readline either). I've programmed quite a bit in K&R C using ed(1) then. no bad feelings Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de or: bsb-at-psycho-dot-i21k-dot-de O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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