D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu> (02/28/91)
#include <standard comment about lack of electronic SPR to DEC>
DS5400 ULTRIX V4.1 (Rev. 52)
Beware of the undocumented shell script pgmrvers:
# pgmrvers
Select one of the following versions [2.0 2.1] :
If you simply press return in response to the above, your
/usr/bin/world will be quite changed when the script finally finishes.
In particular, /usr/bin/make and any other symlinks in /usr/bin will be
useless symlinks to themselves. I suppose I can't post the offending
shell script code or the fix, but I can say that I'd like the people at
DEC who write such programs to check for null input before using it.
The script also starts without using the -f flag to csh, so it reads
all my aliases, and it doesn't set its own search path, so if I have a
different version of "ls" in my path when I start the script or as an
alias the script uses my version instead of the expected one.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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