tcsh not useable out of the box

Jonas Moberg jonas@chello.se
Sat Dec 21 11:26:00 GMT 2002


> bash being the default shell, tcsh's configuration files have,
> apparently, bit-rotted. When started directly -- instead of from
> bash -- a bunch of utilities (from /usr/bin) are not found.

I might have missed something in the thread but to me this seems to be
an issue with where the path is set. It seems Cygwin sets the path
in /etc/csh.login. However /etc/csh.login is executed only if tcsh is
a login shell (which it is if it is started with the argument -l).

--
Jonas Moberg



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