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Re: attach broken on RH/Athena 5.1 [snork]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Nov 13 00:23:48 1998

To: David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 13 Nov 1998 00:23:23 -0500
In-Reply-To: David Z Maze's message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:02:09 EST"

David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 	eval `attach -Padd -b sipb -a -n -h`
> 
> to run 'attach -n -h sipb', and then add
> /mit/sipb/arch/${ATHENA_SYS}/bin to my $PATH.  This works on supported
> Athena platforms (sun4x_56, sgi_52, sgi_53).  On snork, I get the
> error message
> 
> 	Usage: attach [options] filesystem [options] filesystem ...
> 
> and nothing is added to my path.

This seems to be a bug in your dotfiles; add's behavior isn't
well-defined if you list options after locker names.

(I don't know why it behaves differently on Linux, though.)

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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