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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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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
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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.
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Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff