I have (re)discovered that tcsh is not csh although the tcsh man page falsely asserts backward compatibility. Trying to do a simple read of multiword variables in tcsh fails yet works find on csh. The tcsh man page admits as much when one gets to the $< part.
The point is, csh should be the basic backward compatibly lowest common denominator between systems. This is a real problem. I humbly suggest that those that want the bang of tcsh can do a pkg_add just like the morons that want bash instead of sh. If you want to try an example, do the following on csh, and then on tcsh. #!/bin/csh echo enter some words set line = $< set words = ($line) echo line is $line echo word1 is $word[1] echo word2 is $word[2] echo word3 is $word[3] ------ The fact that tcsh can not do this in default mode is beyond pathetic. What is worse is that freebsd didn't notice or care. . _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
