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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: csh weirdness under Ultrix 3.0?
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Date: 8 Apr 90 07:22:10 GMT
References: <642@fsu.scri.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
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In article <642@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> hudgens@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes:
> 
> Anyone ever noticed this?  We're running Ultrix-32 V3.1B 
> on a VAX.  The use of double quotes and back quotes seems to 
> cause octal 377's to be interspersed with regular output.  
> I seem to recall seeing this mentioned somewhere (perhaps in this 
> newsgroup).  Anyone know why csh does this?  Neither bash nor 
> sh seems to do this, nor does any other UNIX machine I have tried. 

This is a feature that DEC introduced in trying to make the shell 8-bit
transparent - they had to change the quoting mechanism from 8-th bit to
"escape" characters.

If you are running VAX stuff, use an either use /usr/new/csh or csh from one
of the older releases, I don't remember if 3.0 is ok, or you have to go back
to 2.2.

For RISC stuff, you need the version from the 3.1C mandatory patch tape.

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