david@cit-vax.ARPA (12/13/85)
From: David Robinson <ia-sun2!david@cit-vax.ARPA> If you are setting your prompt in your .cshrc check to make sure that it is inclosed in a: if ( $?prompt ) set prompt=foobar # other interactive only stuff endif Csh starts up with a null prompt on a noninteractive shell but stiil run thru .cshrc and may create a prompt causing problems in things such as vi and other programs that spawn noninteractive shells to glob things. The difference between BSD and Ultrix is that one of the two might have fixed this problem internally. On one 4.2bsd system I work on (cit-vax.arpa) it has while it hasn't on SUN systems. There are arguments on whether or not this is a bug! -David Robinson ia-sun2!david@cit-vax.arpa