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
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
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
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=${var%\*}
When I tried it
Johan van Selst wrote:
When I tried it myself, I automatically typed quotes, which does work
var=${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
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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
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
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.
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