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From: levy@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is this a ksh bug?
Summary: cd bug in :-containing directories has been fixed in 11/16/88a
Message-ID: <1925@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 89 04:18:56 GMT
References: <554@tijc02.UUCP> <9648@alice.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Skokie IL
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In article <9648@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
< }1. make a subdirectory of the current directory that contains a colon in it:
< }    "mkdir c:"
< }2. cd to that directory: "cd c:" Current directory is now /usr/me/c:
< }3. make a subdirectory of the current directory: "mkdir xyz"
< }4. cd to that directory: "cd xyz"
< }you should get: "ksh: xyz not found"
< Yep, happens here too.
< My machine is a Microvax II running the ninth edition Unix.
< The ksh was taken from "alice" and is dated February 29, 1989.

I was one of the beta testers for the '88 ksh, and to the best of my memory,
this bug is in the 11/16/88 ksh, but not in the 11/16/88a ksh or earlier '86
ksh.  To see what version of ksh you have, type

	EDITOR=emacs

then type control-V.  AT&T employees can get the 88a ksh source from Korn.
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