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Don't mess with BLOCKSIZE in shell startup files.
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Authored by trasz on Jan 10 2019, 12:25 PM.
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Don't mess with BLOCKSIZE in shell startup files - it's set
at login.conf; there's no need to even mention it in shell
rc files.

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The BLOCKSIZE assignments in share/skel are not "wrong" as such, but BLOCKSIZE seems a configuration option of little use in general. Most of the time, the -h option is more useful.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 20 2019, 7:51 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.