Re: tcsh's exit codes

2012-06-23 Thread Johan van Selst
rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: There is something wrong with tcsh shell: # mergemaster -V | grep '\--run-updates' Returned exit code 1 # mergemaster -V | grep -q '\--run-updates' Returned exit code 141 I believe this has been a feature of csh and tcsh since the dark ages. Negative

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-25 Thread Johan van Selst
Zhihao Yuan wrote: Could you please eleborate on the nvi-devel problems? I'm the current maintainer of this port, and as far as I know it's fully functional. 1. It does not support non-Unicode encodings. Actually, these encodings are mainstream in multi-byte encodings world. A proper

Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

2011-03-24 Thread Johan van Selst
Zhihao Yuan wrote: 2. nvi does not use iconv, nvi-m17n only supports limited non-Unicode mbyte encodings, nvi-devel has too many problems. So we don't have a nvi which comes with fully mbyte enconding support; Could you please eleborate on the nvi-devel problems? I'm the current maintainer of

Re: Problem in bin/sh stripping the * character through ${expansion%}

2009-08-06 Thread Johan van Selst
Doug Barton wrote: I came across this problem during a recent portmaster update. When trying to strip off the * character using variable expansion in bin/sh it doesn't work. Other special characters do work if they are properly escaped. Your script does var=${var%\*} When I tried it

Re: Problem in bin/sh stripping the * character through ${expansion%}

2009-08-06 Thread Johan van Selst
Johan van Selst wrote: When I tried it myself, I automatically typed quotes, which does work var=${var%\*} Really should learn to read better: this in fact procudes 'foo' rather than 'foo\' in the given example case. Again, not like bash. Johan pgpbI94sMye6i.pgp Description: PGP

Re: small usr.bin/find patch

2009-06-24 Thread Johan van Selst
Alexander Best wrote: hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard telling app developers what to use? It might be appropriate to use expand_number() here. This is what some other tools do

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

2009-03-25 Thread Johan van Selst
Luigi Rizzo wrote: I said yes, but then I was wondering what happens if the person listed is not responding or not reachable anymore: does copyright on source code expire, and if so, when ? Yes, copyright expires. When it expires exactly depends on local legislation. Generally this is a number

Re: tcsh fix

2004-11-13 Thread Johan van Selst
Kevin Lyons wrote: Presumably pure csh is the last stable release of csh before tcsh came along. Openbsd, netbsd, sun and sgi all seem to have been able to settle on a csh. If you really want csh, please install ports:shells/44bsd-csh/ And if you just want to troll, please stop. Thank you.