July 1995
Beginner to intermediate
244 pages
5h 58m
English
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Appendix A. Obtaining and Installing tcsh
In This Appendix:
Obtaining the Source Distribution
Build the Distribution—Quick Instructions
Build the Distribution—Detailed Instructions
Testing and Installing tcsh
Allowing tcsh To Be a Login Shell
This appendix describes how to obtain, build, test, and install tcsh. As I write, tcsh is at version 6.06. If a more recent version has been released, simply substitute the new version number for 6.06 in the following commands in which it appears.
The first step in installing tcsh is determining if an up-to-date tcsh is already installed on your system. If so, you do not need to do anything except change your login shell to tcsh. (See "Selecting a Shell" in Chapter 1, Introduction.) Otherwise, you must obtain the current version and then install it.
Find out whether tcsh is installed and what its pathname is by asking your system administrator, or by running this command:
% which tcshIf tcsh is present, determine its version number using the following command. Use single quotes as shown, but substitute the actual pathname if it differs from /bin/tcsh:
% /bin/tcsh -c 'echo $version'
tcsh 6.00.02 (Cornell) 08/05/91 options 8b,nls,dl,al,dirIf the output of this command indicates that your tcsh is an old version (as it does in the above example), obtain the current version and install it.
Obtaining the Source Distribution
The tcsh source distribution is available on the Internet via anonymous FTP. Connect to ftp.deshaw.com, change into the /pub/tcsh directory, ...
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