[6462] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Can we make the type-symlink go away?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Tue Aug 26 15:02:50 1997
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Cc: svalente@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Aug 1997 15:02:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: Jered J Floyd's message of 26 Aug 1997 13:04:42 -0400
I'm inclined to suggest that we (at least temporarily) replace it with a
script that says something on the order of "This isn't the command you're
looking for. Try cat, more or less."
Only more clearly.
Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> In the sipb locker, type is a symlink to 'desupported.sh'. I'm told
> that this was originially a typing tutor program, but most new users
> think 'type' is how to view a file. (Thanks, DOS.) This leads to the
> confusion that we saw earlier today.
>
> Any good reason to keep this symlink around?
>
> --Jered
