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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Case statements in Bourne shell
Message-ID: <2256@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 18 Jul 89 23:05:06 GMT
References: <1989Jun21.180116.18294@insyte> <1989Jun24.204627.24638@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>... I would like to know if our Bourne shell is broken or if the scripts
 >>are written incorrectly...
 >
 >The former, I think.  My recollection is that we've seen obscure shell
 >problems before on HP boxes -- HP seems to have Done Something to the shell,
 >perhaps as part of an incautious attempt to make it 8-bit-clean.

Probably correct.  The SunOS 4.0 Bourne shell, which is basically the
S5R3.1 Bourne shell (said shell also being 8-bit clean, BTW), handles
this correctly.