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Re: sources
- To: dwsharp@iee.org, gnu-win32 <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: sources
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:14:39 -0500
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- In-Reply-To: <36C856B3.E5010221@dddandr.octacon.co.uk>; from Don Sharp on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 05:17:39PM +0000
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On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 05:17:39PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote:
>As Chris is in denial mode wrt ash I'll need to have a go at fixing the
>missing character problem in the pattern match. (He is right in saying
>that it isn't something that the Bourne shell can do anyway so what/who
>decides the correct behaviour is possibly a moot point).
Denial mode? You want ash to handle the same substitutions as bash. It
isn't going to happen.
As to who decides the correct behavior, it's not a moot point. It's me.
If someone can point me to some documentation that proves that ash is not
working like a standard UNIX /bin/sh, then I'll be happy to change my mind.
cgf
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