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From: rachael@mraox.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (Rachael Padman)
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Subject: Re: TCSH 6.03 on VMS/AXP 6.1, Posix 2.0?
Date: 4 Mar 1995 16:23:37 GMT
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David,

I have installed this on my AXP 3000 /300LX with VMS 6.1. It works fine,
after a little help from Andy Phillips (who did the port).

In fact I think the compiler warnings are not serious, and the only thing
you really *do* need to do is in tc.os.h, where the routine setprio doesn't
exist in the new Posix. The routine "nice(a)" *does* exist however, so just
remove the        

# define  nice(a)       setprio((getpid()),a)

and it will then pick up the correct routine.

One other problem various users have found is that you can't in fact install
it as the default shell (using the appropriate line in Posix$user_params.dat).
But this doesn't seem very serious, and you can always start tcsh from within
your .profile (as suggested to me by Pete Houston in Oxford UK)

if [ $PPID -eq 1 ]
then
        tcsh -l
        exit 0
fi

Seems to work

-- 

Rachael Padman
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Cambridge, UK