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From: jjd@alexander.bbn.com (James J Dempsey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: 1.03 teething pains
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Date: 6 Sep 89 23:11:22 GMT
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Some of these may be bugs, others may just be changes in the way bash
works since the last version.

My environment: SPARCstation, Sun OS 4.0.3c, gcc 1.35, yacc

1. If I had a user named brianfox on my machine in 1.02 I could type
~brianf<tab> and bash would complete with ~brianfox/ with my cursor
right after the '/'.  Under 1.03, typing ~brianf<tab> results in bash
completing ~brianfox with no slash and my cursor after a space after
the 'x'.

2. Bash 1.03 seems to execute .bash_profile on an rsh when 1.02 only
did .bashrc.  

3. The automatic version numbering program (newversion.aux) didn't
work right for me.  I compiled bash on Ultrix 3.0, Sun OS 4.0.3 and
Sun OS 4.0.3c and in each case $BASH_VERSION ended up being 0.00.x
where x is a number between 1 and 5.  Also, the distributed version.h
had DISTVERSION set to 1.13, not 1.03.

4. 1.03 sometimes drops or misorders (!) the first few characters I
type just after I switch into an xterm window running bash 1.03.  This
didn't happen in 1.02.


Thanks for 1.03 -- I'm glad we won't be seeing any more "^D dumps
core" messages!

		--Jim Dempsey--
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