From: dbe AT wgn DOT net ($Bill Luebkert)
Subject: Re: pdksh and UNC paths
17 Dec 1998 21:12:01 -0800
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
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Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 08:35:56AM -0600, Steven Hein wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm pretty sure that I could add this functionality to pdksh, but
> > before I try, has anyone else added this to pdksh?
> 
> Most likely, pdksh is doing something illadvised with its paths like
> stripping multiple leading slashes.  I wouldn't expect it to be too
> hard to fix.
> 
> I really want tcsh to work without having to type "unhash" to start
> off with.  I don't expect that would be too hard to fix either.
> 
> Bash is what most people use (because that's what we've provided in
> the past as the only real shell) so some of these other shells still
> have some kinks to work out.  I would like to ship tcsh with Cygwin
> releases as well; we'll see I guess...

That would be nice.  tcsh, less, man and vi are indispensable for me.
I'm having trouble getting Corinna's tcsh to work.  The native one 
seems to work fine.

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