[731] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Documentation items for 8.1 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 26 22:32:34 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:32:29 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[729] in Release_7.7_team"
> It's my recollection that the release team decided that this link
> should not be removed on old platforms, but failing to add it on new
> ones is OK. If that is the case, this goes against that decision,
> and should probably get explicit approval from the release team,
> especially given how user visable it is.
(I got explicit approval from the release team this morning.)
It's not clear how user-visible it is:
* Old /etc/passwd entries can be taken care of by an update
script.
* tcsh has very few scripting features not present in csh, so
it seems unlikely that scripts would be unwittingly relying
on tcsh features. Also, those same scripts are failing on
SGIs now.
However, Carla thought we should be notifying people in case they want
to check their scripts. I meant to ask her what lists she thought it
would be appropriate to send mail to, but I didn't manage to.
