[9793] in Athena Bugs
sun4 0.1A: tcsh/csh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 14 16:26:08 1992
From: vanharen@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: carla@MIT.EDU, owens@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:25:43 BST
System name: bad-loud-music
Type and version: sun4 0.1A
Display type: sun4
What were you trying to do?
Source a file without a trailing newline. (Actually, it
wasn't me at all, it was Tom Owens, and he was on a DECstation,
not a sun, but it happens on the sun, too.)
What's wrong:
Tom had the following line in his .environment file:
setenv WINDOW_MANAGER /usr/athena/twm
*without* the trailing newline (courtesy of ez, which does not
tack on a trailing newline by default -- see next bug report :-)
and it was not taking effect. Adding a newline to the file,
with emacs, or vi or whatever, made it work fine.
This is easy enough to reproduce, try it and see.
What should have happened:
It should work, whether the newline is there or not.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man csh? man tcsh? dunno...
