Very Computer

        We are having an odd problem with the above "remote" commands
that doesn't seem to be very well documented....  Attempting to use
them results in a "Where are you?" error message, followed by a swift
exit from the program involved.  I have been unable to locate this
error in the source (I may very well be looking in the wrong places)
except for biff (where it occurs when biff can't figure out what
terminal you're on)....  We are running BSD 4.3 on a Vax, SUNOS 3.3
and 3.4 and other 4.2 deriviatives and it will not work for any
combination .  If you have any idea, I would greatly appreciate some
light being shed on this.  Please mail to me as I don't read this
group.

Christopher Welty - Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs

Quote:

>    We are having an odd problem with the above "remote" commands
>Attempting to use
>them results in a "Where are you?" error message, followed by a swift
>exit from the program involved.  

Also you should test to see if you are in an interactive shell before
executing parts of your .cshrc file

The follwing is part of my .cshrc file...

set path=(/usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin /usr/hosts /local/bin /etc .)
#
# Check to see if this is an interactive shell...
if ($?prompt) then
 echo -n
 set history=50

 alias  rn      'rn -S'
endif

cj

if ($?prompt == 0) exit 0

which allows csh to skip parsing the rest of the file.

Quote:> An oft missed optimization of this is

> if ($?prompt == 0) exit 0

> which allows csh to skip parsing the rest of the file.

while true
do
    stuff
done

"Stuff" was never getting done. Turns out a combination of two things
were happening. The user's .cshrc had a line in that said

if ($?prompt == 0) exit 1

and /bin/true was

--
#
# id string here
#
exit 0
--

Use your wizardry to see the bug here.

Rick