[732] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Documentation items for 8.1 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Sep 26 22:40:37 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:32:29 EDT."
<199609270232.WAA31899@cutter-john.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:40:31 EDT
> (I got explicit approval from the release team this morning.)
OK, I slept thru it. :-/
> It's not clear how user-visible it is:
>
> * Old /etc/passwd entries can be taken care of by an update
> script.
That would certainly help.
> * 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.
Yeah, it's true that people have had to fix these for the SGI if they
want them to work there. OK, assuming it'll be in the docs (which is
why you sent the mail in the first place) I don't have any problems
with it.
Jonathon
