Re: A lesson learned...

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:52 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> I searched through my e-mail archives looking for a thread about this
> problem (which I had initiated) in the FC3 mail list. The problem was
> traced to added code in an early FC3 bashrc that had to do with handling
> the erase function in interactive shells. Apparently this new code
> caused problems because it disappeared in later bashrc upgrades. I
> discovered this a few minutes ago when I found and examined a much
> simpler bashrc.rpmsave file on my FC3 laptop which turns out to be the
> same one used by the new RHEL4. It hadn't dawned on me to check it out
> back then. Laziness, to be sure. Had I done so, I wouldn't be writing
> this.

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 07:26 -0600, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> lol.. I think the Fedora Core environment `just works` for me.
> [kyle@fluffbox ~]$ rm -fr / :D
> thats all I really need in a terminal.
> I may add ASCII colors to it one day, but why mess with something so
> perfect?
> 	( then again being a fedora "developer" I would tend to be biased )
> 	:)
> 		-kyle

RHCL4.0 (FC2) shipped with Bash 3.0.0 and had various quirks.
RHCL4.1 (FC3) shipped with Bash 3.0.14 which has seemingly addressed
most of them.

Haven't checked what RHCL4.2-Development (FC4-Development) or RHEL4 run,
although I have a RHEL4-Beta system installed I can check when I have
time.


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Bryan J. Smith                   mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org
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