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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Subject: Re: 8 bit clean bash
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- References: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:32:58 GMT
- Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- > 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?
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- Bash 1.13 is 8-bit clean.
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- (You're right. It took a long time to fix the subst.c code.)
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- Chet
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- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
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- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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