Installing tcsh on Ultrix 4.1?

[Heine Rasmussen]

In <JOERN.91Jun26105117 at hufsa.imf.unit.no> joern at imf.unit.no (Joern Amundsen) writes:

>I copied the binary for use with 4.0 on our DECStation 3100, it still
>works quite well after installing 4.1. Can't see why it shouldn't still work
>with 4.2.

After installing 4.2 on a 5000/120, tcsh didn't work.  The problem is
that when you try to login from the console (:0), /usr/bin/login
spawns a shell with the argument "-c exec /usr/bin/dxsession".  At
this point, stdin and stdout are not open (I believe); this is
something new in 4.2.  tcsh will then crash, even if stdin and stdout
are not needed to do the job.

This problem may have been fixed in newer versions of tcsh.

-heine
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