Subject: Re: PR's about which(1)
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/04/2004 14:28:22
[ On Saturday, April 3, 2004 at 12:19:09 (-0800), Erik E. Fair wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: PR's about which(1)
>
> At 14:42 -0500 4/3/04, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> >I don't think so.  Solaris has a "which" script because their version of
> >"csh" is ancient (i.e. isn't actually "tcsh") and, IIRC, it doesn't have
> >a built-in of the same name like "tcsh" does.
> 
> tcsh is not csh. tcsh is a broken csh.

Indeed.  I mentioned tcsh simply because it is where, IIUC, the idea of
having "which" as a built-in originated (I don't know if the
4.4BSD-Lite2 implementation of dowhich() is the same as the one in tcsh).


> This is a real problem on MacOS X.

Hmmmm.... only for csh users, I'd say  ;-)

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