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Re: Unix file path problems


  • Subject: Re: Unix file path problems
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:50:19 +0100

on 28/6/04 11:07 pm, John W. Baxter at email@hidden wrote:

> On 6/27/2004 23:14, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Readline works perfectly with bash - do you know if .inputrc is picked up on
>> by other OS X shell flavours?
>
> It should be. It's nothing particularly new. Differing terminals is a
> problem which Unix had to solve early on...paper teletypes and old style
> character generator (two forms) CRTs and bit-mapped CRTs, and X-Windows on
> the latter, just don't behave the same, and code needs an easy way to work
> regardless.

I tested the script using a G5 running Panther and .tcsh and it failed to
take any notice of the .inputrc file - failing in the same way that bash did
prior to adding the .inputrc.

Perhaps the .inputrc file needs to be specified in the C shell setup files?
Which makes things quite complicated :(

Regards

--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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