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Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:43:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: John Morrison <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
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On Mon, 5 May 2003, John Morrison wrote:

> > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> > John,
> >
> > Some notes below.
>
> Ta :)
>
> > On Mon, 5 May 2003, John Morrison wrote:
>
> > > MANPATH="/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man:$MANPATH"
> >            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > This should be "/usr/local/man:/usr/man:".  This bug was in my
> > /etc/profile as well; I just fixed it.
>
> Fixed
>
> > > export MANPATH
> > > case "$0" in
> > > bash     | -bash     | */bash | \
> > > bash.exe | -bash.exe | */bash.exe )
> > >   # Set a HOSTNAME variable
> > >   HOSTNAME=`hostname`
> > >   export HOSTNAME
> >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > The two lines above should be outside of the "bash" case, as they are also
> > used in the "ksh" case.
>
> ksh uses typeset (I don't use ksh, what's typeset?) I assumed
> it was the equiv.

typeset is a ksh builtin for manipulating values of variables, really
cool -- wish bash had something similar.

> > >   # Set a default prompt of: user AT host and current_directory
> > >   PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007
> > >   \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> > >   $ '
> > >   ;;
> > > ksh*     | -ksh*     | */ksh* | \
> > > ksh*.exe | -ksh*.exe | */ksh*.exe )
> > >   # Set a HOSTNAME variable
> > >   typeset -l HOSTNAME
>
> What's this do?

"typeset -l" simply lowercases the contents of the variable, similar to
"|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'", but faster, since done internally.  But it needs a
value in HOSTNAME.  The above is probably an artifact from the time
`hostname` returned an uppercase name, but it may still be necessary on
Win9x systems...

> > >   # Set a default prompt of: user AT host and current_directory
> > >   PS1='^[]0;${PWD}^G
> > >   ^[[32m${USER}@${HOSTNAME} ^[[33m${PWD}^[[0m
> > >   $ '
> > >   ;;
> > > sh     | -sh     | */sh \
> > > sh.exe | -sh.exe | */sh.exe )
> > >   # Set a simple prompt
> > >   PS1='$ '
> > >   ;;
> > > * )
> > >   echo "Sorry, this shell has no default setup."
> > >   echo "Please contact cygwin AT cygwin DOT com with the shell details"
> > >   echo "and what you would like set as reasonable defaults."
> >           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I'm thinking, should /etc/csh.login and /etc/csh.cshrc live in this
> > package too?  Also, does "zsh" use /etc/profile, or something else?
>
> I don't know, I only use bash, open for discussion :)
>
> J.

I'll let others comment on the tcsh/zsh bit, as I don't use it either.
	Igor
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