[2133] in SIPB bug reports
where
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Oct 3 15:40:12 1991
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 15:35:51 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: marc@MIT.EDU
Cc: ckclark@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, marc@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9110022344.AA16345@frank-herbert.MIT.EDU> (message from Marc Horowitz on Wed, 02 Oct 91 19:44:47 EDT)
Ken, if you still use the ds script, I advise that you make it an
alias, and delete the where *and* ds programs. So there :-)
I don't really care much about "ds". I think deleting "where" would
be a mistake.
You are not expecting people to want "where" when the RS6000s are in
more common use? Or are you expecting Athena to replace /bin/csh?
You haven't addressed the points of use in a shell script, or
requiring different commands on different architectures. Do you
consider these irrelevant?
The only other reasonable course I see is to wait until Athena
replaces /bin/csh on the BSD platforms with tcsh-6, then tell people
to always use "which", and not care if they get ioctl messages from
uses in sh scripts.
