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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: /bin/sh on HP-UX on HP-9000, case problem
- Message-ID: <FRANL.93Jan8113645@draco.centerline.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:36:45 GMT
- References: <1993Jan7.194606.27426@Cherniak.ON.CA>
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- In-reply-to: quenton@Cherniak.ON.CA's message of 7 Jan 93 19:46:06 GMT
-
- quenton@Cherniak.ON.CA (Dennis Smith) writes:
-
- > case "abc?def" in
- > *"?"*) echo OK;;
- > esac
- >
- > This should echo "OK".
- > It does on ksh. It does on /bin/sh on 8 other platforms including AIX.
- > It does not on /bin/sh on the HP.
-
- This works under my pre-release version of HP-UX 9.0 on an HP 720. It
- does not work under 8.07 on an HP 720. Looks like it's fixed.
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