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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3.0 changed basename(1)
Message-ID: <3074@solo4.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 25 Aug 89 19:51:07 GMT
References: <1989Aug25.144051.11467@acd4.UUCP>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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mjb@acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          ) writes:
\It seems basename() now does some limited regular expression handling.
\Therefore, the command "basename /vmunix .x" will produce "vmun",
\rather than the expected "vmunix".  [...]

To whoever made this change: the abovementioned behavior is COMPLETELY
DISTURBED!  It's like: in Ultrix 3.0 the kernel will reside in /bin/cat!
Use /etc/fsck to catenate files. :-(
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