home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!solnes.nr.no!aas
- From: aas@solnes.nr.no (Gisle Aas)
- Subject: 8 bit clean bash
- Message-ID: <AAS.92Aug11100825@solnes.nr.no>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Reply-To: Gisle.Aas@nr.no
- Organization: Norwegian Computing Centre, Oslo, Norway
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 09:08:25 GMT
- Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 17
-
- Bash is my favorite shell, despite its problems with handling of 8 bit
- characters. We now have an almost 8 bit clean operating system, and it
- is a pity to switch to tcsh each time I want to maniplulate files with
- 8 bit chars in their names.
-
- I tried to hack bash to make it 8 bit clean. The readline library was
- no problem, but fixing it was not enough. The big problem seams to be
- the way quoting is handled in the subst.c source file. I did't have
- time to solve this, so I just gave up...
-
- When do we get an official release of bash that is 8 bit clean?
- --
- Gisle Aas | snail: Boks 114 Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway
- Norsk Regnesentral | X.400: G=Gisle;S=Aas;O=nr;P=uninett;C=no
- voice: +47-2-453561 | inet: Gisle.Aas@nr.no
-
-
-