Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Most versons of ls work for me, but I do have an older machine running 
> ISC 4.0 (Interactive Unix) which does not handle -1.  How much of a
> problem is it to parse the results of ls with a whitespace separator
> rather than newline?

So, should I be doing `ls | cat', instead?  What do you think?

> On a related point, my .profile is geared up to being sourced
> interactively or not.  The latter just sets environment variables.
> Interactive things like calling stty and aliasing cd to change the
> xterm title are within the condition "if tty -s && [ -z "$DT" ]".  The 
> DT variable is set during CDE session startup.  Am I going to be able
> to add a similar test to know when rcp.el is in charge?

Hm.  I'm not sure how this could be done.  I could add a variable to
the process environment before starting rsh (or whatever), but I think
that variable will not propagate to the remote shell, will it?  Hm.
Any ideas?

kai
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