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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!uunet!world!geoff From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) Subject: Re: Has anyone ported C-News to 386bsd? Message-ID: <C3KzBp.K6u@world.std.com> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die References: <1ndtjkINN49t@ftp.UU.NET> <6546@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 17:31:00 GMT Lines: 13 Adam David: >The subst script was broken. In the "performance" release from February this >year, the following changes are necessary: >Basically it was just removal of all occurences of '\"' and replacement of all >occurences of '\\' with '\' throughout the subst script. I don't think it is >a bug with the shell, it seems the script was genuinely broken. No, the shell is broken; subst is correct as supplied. I'm working with UCB now to try to get this fixed in 4.4BSD. This shell bug also breaks build and probably quite a few other scripts. -- Geoff Collyer world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff