Ultrix 3.1C Patch Tape

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Thu Feb 15 03:25:25 AEST 1990


In article <9665 at cbmvax.commodore.com> grr at cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> In article <9658 at cbmvax.commodore.com> grr at cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> > Well, the elusive Ultrix 3.1C Patch Tape finally showed up in the mail today,

Yet another gotcha...

The patch tape overwrites the 3.1C /bin/csh with a different csh that doesn't
contain the command completion (like tenex-csh) stuff.  Assuming you started
with 3.1C this leaves you with no command-completion shell and your users
will likely come visit.

So, before installing the patch tape, you might want to copy /bin/csh over
to /usr/new/csh and improve whatever "tcsh" or other links you had in for
compatibility to point there.

I don't know if the "new" shell is the standard csh with the all the bugs
fixed or what.  The 3.1C csh had some minor bugs where sourcing a file
(including .login/.cshrc) that had errors would cause it to eat as much
virtual memory as it could get.  This caused near-system hangs while the
shell was gorging, but once the offending stuff was fixed wasn't a problem.


1c1
< bin/csh_3.1C
---
> /bin/csh_3.1C_patch
7,12d6
< 	tenex.c	1.1	(ULTRIX)	2/20/89
< 	sh.editglue.c	1.1	(ULTRIX)	2/20/89
< 	sh.edit.c	1.1	(ULTRIX)	2/20/89
< 	tgoto.c	4.1 (Berkeley) 6/27/83
< 	tputs.c	4.1 (Berkeley) 6/27/83
< 	termcap.c	1.1	ULTRIX	2/24/89
25d18
< 	alarm.c	1.1	(ULTRIX)	2/21/89

BTW: the order/reference number for the patch package is AV-PBPAA-TE
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