[2799] in testers
Re: sun4 7.7P: add
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jan 30 20:15:00 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 20:14:33 -0500
To: dkk@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2798] in testers"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> > It is a c-shell script, but nonetheless expects
> > PATH to be defined, which is not guaranteed.
>
> The only way I've ever succeeded in getting an Athena csh to have
> $path set but not $PATH is by "unsetenv PATH" and then not touching
> $path (or the shell immediately puts $PATH back in the environment).
Well, ``env - /bin/athena/tcsh'' is another way, but yes.
> I think it's reasonable for users who do this to expect some
> incompatibility (eg: every process they spawn from that shell will
> have no path set at all).
I disagree. PATH is a Bourne thing, path, is a csh thing. csh changes
PATH only as a courtesy to Bourne derivatives...
But this is not the proper forum...
--jhawk
