[2735] in SIPB bug reports
[daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : Re: tcsh ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Tue Apr 21 17:48:41 1992
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 17:48:06 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: zchi@Athena.MIT.EDU, kkkken@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
> Thanks for your reply. I am afraid I didn't state my question clearly.
> that I really want to know is what changes I need to make to various
> startup files. For example, hosttype is not set in tcsh. So I need to
> set it in .cshrc file. I just wonder if there are other changes that I
> need to make.
> --Zhihang
There are actually a number of differences. Perhaps the best thing for
me to do is point you to the man page for tcsh6:
athena% add sipb
athena% man -M /mit/sipb/man tcsh
I will point out a few of the things people notice:
1. As you mentioned, $hosttype is not set. Instead,
tcsh6 sets the environment variable $HOSTTYPE.
2. The formatting characters in the prompt are
different. For example, `%d' in tcsh6 is the
day of the week, rather than the current working
directory.
3. The default completion bindings are different.
You use TAB rather than ^Z to complete, for
example.
Also, tcsh6 is loaded with a large number of features that are not
available in the current Athena tcsh. So, even if this is enough to
prevent you from running into problems, I suggest that you read the man
page anyway to see what these features are. Bug reports and further
questions on the shell should go to bug-tcsh6@athena.mit.edu.
-Calvin
