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From: pbm@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Peter McLain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ksh 88 problem
Message-ID: <5740055@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 90 15:57:18 GMT
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>I've just built the 11/16/88 version of ksh and have noticed the
>following anomaly. When trying to use filename expansion on a single
>file an additional space is tagged on the end. This never used to happen
>with the 06/03/86 version. Does anyone have a fix for this?

    I believe this is a feature of ksh88.  If you want to turn it off,
    look in sh/edit.c near the end of ed_expand().  In the last #ifdef
    tenex section, ' ' is appended to "out".  You could also experiment
    with #undef tenex  (it is turned on if you are making ESH or VSH), but
    this may get rid of other features you want.


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