On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > 1. How does TERM get set? >
it is set by login(1). > P.S. Is there any advantage to using bash instead of tcsh? Does bash > have all the features that tcsh has? > well, being a LONG time tcsh user, no, bash can't do everything tcsh does. tcsh can do command line spell checking, has a better (IMO) built in ``which'' (it recognizes aliases), amoung other things. but bash will help prevent you from learning bad skills (auto-spell correction only teaches you that you don't have to spell well). and bash is more standard. i highly recommend working with bash rather than tcsh, i switched for a variety of reasons, especially for shell programming. Linus dislikes tcsh a great deal, and also urges not to use it, and there is a rather good FAQ on the dangers of (t)csh programming posted regularly to comp.unix.programmer > Also, why is there no "ppp-off" script included with the ppp package? > good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue, a ppp group would be in order. jeff --- Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors. drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough. forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a gnu generation.