ben@tis.llnl.gov (no capitals here) (12/13/88)
while experimenting with batch(1), a new at-oriented command in OS 4.0, i noted it failed (sent me nasty mail) while trying to do stty(1) calls in my .cshrc . i thought that was silly, since these calls occur after a line if !(?prompt) exit which tells the shell stop reading the file if the shell is non-interactive. sure enough, when i submitted another job to batch asking it to tell me what $prompt was (after moving my .cshrc to something else so the job would at least finish!), it said it was "calvin% ", the default. now i contend that batch(1) jobs are *not* interactive, and shouldn't set $prompt before reading my .cshrc . sounds like a bug in batch to me, and i was wondering what everyone else thought before i submit it to sun. please send me mail at one of the addresses below, and i'll let y'all know how it comes out. ...ben ben ullrich sybase, inc. emeryville, ca ben%sybase.com@sun.com {pyramid,pacbell,sun,lll-tis,capmkt}!sybase!ben