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From: smith@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problem with /bin/sh in HP-UX 5.11, has it been fixed?
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.004449.279@groucho>
Date: 25 Aug 90 00:44:49 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.174549.7785@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au>
Reply-To: smith@wallaby.UUCP (William D. Smith)
Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow
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In article <1990Aug24.174549.7785@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au> bernd@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au (Bernd Wechner) writes:
>There is a known bug in our shell which causes problems with Cnews shell
>scripts. It incorrectly interprets code like this:
>
>VAR=""
>case "$VAR" in
>   "") echo EMPTY;;
>   *)  echo FULL;;
>esac
>
>echoing FULL rather than EMPTY.
>
>We are running HP-UX 5.11 on an HP9000 series 500.
>uname -a yields "HP-UX bhpcpd 05.11 B 9030X 2304A00202"
>
>Has this bug been fixed? If so, what version would I need?

Its works correctly in both 6.5 and 7.0.
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