[4986] in SIPB bug reports
mosaic outputs cruft to stdout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Thu Oct 27 12:28:15 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 12:27:26 +0500
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@MIT.EDU>
To: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, yoav@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: jhawk@MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 27 Oct 1994 07:38:26 EDT <9410271138.AA08682@yaz-pistachio.MIT.EDU>
Better still would be to use a "here" document instead of a string of
echos. Some athena systems (vax, decmips, others?) have "classic", ie.
mind numbingly stupid, bourne shells, which don't have echo as a
builtin *and* don't cache path searches, causing seperate "echo" lines
to be seperated by long (ie. user-visible, up to one second on a vax)
pauses per line...
Thus:
cat 1>&2 << EOF
mosaic should be run as Mosaic (note the capital M)
I will run Mosaic for you now, but please be aware that mosaic
will not work forever, and will go away at some point.
EOF
is to be preferred (assuming I got the redirection right, but test it
of course...) By keeping the text in one block, it even makes it
easier to edit (word-wrap, etc.)
_Mark_
