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- Submitted-by: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
-
- In <1992Mar31.204813.684@uunet.uu.net> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
- >In article <1992Mar31.024454.23050@uunet.uu.net> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
- >>The only explicit mention of `#' for the shell in p1003.2a is in the
- >>description of the Vi editing mode. It's a command to comment-out the
- >>current line (excerpted below). ...
-
- >That's disgusting!
- >If 1003.2 is going to break zillions of existing carefuly-written shell
- >scripts, then it ought not to be adopted.
-
- You're confusing 1003.2 with 1003.2a. 1003.2 mentions that `#' is the
- comment character in scripts and people want 1003.2a to say that it
- also works interactively. That goes without saying for people who are
- used to sane shells, but many netters are used to the C shell, which
- gets this sort of detail wrong. Apparently, at least one vendor has
- seen fit to duplicate this bug in an otherwise Bourne compatible shell.
-
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- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 64
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