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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!ray
- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: Really stupid questions
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:34:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.163417.11240@Celestial.COM>
- References: <009653DD.EFDB4180@vms.csd.mu.edu>
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- In <009653DD.EFDB4180@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2760carpente@vms.csd.mu.edu (METALLICA) writes:
-
- >I have a few really stupid questions. Feel free to laugh at me, but I would
-
- The only really stupid question is the question you don't ask!
-
- >really appericiate it if someone could take the time to answer my question.
- >I spent 4 years working with VMS and DOS/WIN3 but now I want learn about UNIX.
- >I have seen the errors of my way....
-
- Wellcome to the real world of computers.
-
- >1) I have a file .plan in my root dir. How do I set it up to display everytime
- > somebody fingers me.
- >2) How do I set up my .sig file to append to all my messages? What mailer is
- > better: elm or vanilla mail
-
- elm by a long shot. With elm, put your sig file in $HOME/logalsig.
-
- >3) Which shell is better? I am currently using /bin/csh, but people keep
- > telling me that I should use the Bourne shell. /bin/sh
-
- csh and ksh both have a history function which allows you to rerun and/or
- edit previous command lines without retyping the whole line. - A great time
- saver. I recommend that you use either of these as your interactive shell.
- I think what "people keep telling" you is to use the Bourne shell to write
- your shell scripts in. It does not matter what interactive shell you are
- using when you run a shell script because the script can be forced to
- Bourne. On most systems use
- #!/bin/sh
- as the first line of a shell script and it will run under Bourne. If that
- doesn't work on your system, put
- :
- as the first line to force Bourne.
- >4) Is the faq for this group at pit-manager.mit.edu?
-
- >Thank you....
- >It did say comp.unix.questions??????
-
- >__ ___ __ ___ __
- > \ / | \ | Vinny Carpenter | It takes a big man to
- > \ / | \ | Marquette University | cry. It takes an even
- > / | | \ | 2760carpente@vms.csd.mu.edu| bigger man to laugh at
- > / | | | vcarpent@nyx.cs.du.edu | that man -Jack Handey
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > METALLICA IS GOD
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