Problems with nice -> should be: Problems with nice man-page.

[Knobi der Rechnerschrat]

Hello,

  the problem with nice seems to be more a problem with the nice man
page. There it is silently assumed that you are using /bin/sh as your
shell. If you use /bin/csh (or derivates like tcsh) things are different.

 Here are the rules that I have discovered by experiment:

   shell   def-value   decrease priority  increase priority (as root)
   ------------------------------------------------------------------
   sh         10       nice -value          nice --value
   csh         4       nice +value          nice  -value

 The '-', '--' and '+' are IMPORTANT. Could somebody at SGI look at
the man page and correct it for some future release?


Regards
Martin Knoblauch

TH-Darmstadt
Physical Chemistry 1
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D-6100 Darmstadt, FRG

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