[552] in Athena Bugs
Re: 'cdpath' is an evil concept
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Jul 22 23:39:32 1988
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 23:38:59 EDT
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Henry Mensch's message of Thu, 14 Jul 88 23:01:00 EDT,
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 23:01:00 EDT
Sender: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
Well, the situation you describe would really suck if it happened, but
I don't see (in the default dotfiles in RT 6.0b) cdpath being set.
I'm inclined to think that the /. files in the example you mentioned
are an anomaly instead of an example of the current state of affairs.
Can you demonstrate that what I say isn't true?
-- Henry
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I don't remember whether this got a response or not... The machine I
was on was aeneas, which I think should be fairly standard. I just
took a look at this machine (bill-the-cat), and it appears the same
way. /.cshrc contains a line setting cdpath to "/", and also (still!)
has the "`hostname | sed /mit-//`" stuff in it for editing the prompt.
It would seem to me to be the current state of affairs.
