[142] in athena10
Re: The default prompt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sat Mar 29 07:28:22 2008
Cc: linerva@mit.edu, debathena@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:27:37 -0400
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> - set the "interactive" shell variable.
What do we gain from removing this? The reason it's there (as far as
I know) is because some people insist on doing things in
their .cshrc.mine that generate output. When done in non-interactive
shells, this causes things like Dreamweaver's built-in FTP client
(which is supported by IS&T for uploading web pages to Athena) to barf
with an amazingly non-useful error message. I mean, we can say "Don't
do that", and we already do, but if we remove this, people who have
gone to the effort to make sure that they're doing it "right" may
start losing.
Someone who knows more about this should feel free to correct me.
-Jon
