[OS X TeX] Recent allegations about tcsh

Gerben Wierda Sherlock at rna.nl
Thu Sep 12 08:04:42 EDT 2002



I have taken this off list to see if we can come to maybe an agreed 
common statement on cli-issues.

However, to prevent users doing things that make matters from my support 
perspective worse, I'll have this comment:

On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 12:50 , Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> In any case, Gerben has made the situation sound far more apocalyptic 
> and dire than it really is, and the fact of the matter is that if 
> you're a naive user who will never customize your settings further but 
> like being Fred Sanchez, you can simply follow the README letter for 
> letter and nothing bad will happen to you beyond bearing a sudden 
> uncomfortable resemblance to Fred.

If you follow the tcsh examples/README instructions letter for letter, 
my TeX distribution will not work for you from the command line. That 
could be seen as 'bad' but that depends on your perspective.

G


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