Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Aspen ksh (again :-( )
Keywords: vi bug
Message-ID: <3077@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 24 Mar 90 19:57:16 GMT
References: <530@texbell.swbt.com> <1216@telsys.aut.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The problem is not with ksh but with vi. It seems that the vi code sets the
>8th bit of the characters it passes to the shell. The Bourne shell always
>stripped the 8th bit so it was not effected.

Until System V Release 3, at which point it stopped stripping the 8th
bit.

>I'm not sure if the vi bug was fixed in System V release 3.

It was definitely fixed by S5R3.1....