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From: ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problem with /bin/sh in HP-UX 5.11, has it been fixed?
Message-ID: <330033@vantage.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 23:39:56 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.174549.7785@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au>
Organization: Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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>>  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?

Another Series 500 person! Yea! (We have to stick together, yes?).

I ran both of your tests (with the "" and without) on our 500 and got EMPTY
for both of them. uname -a is HP-UX vantage 05.21 B 9030X 2304A00475.

As you can see, we are running 5.21.

By the way, lest a previous response stating that
>>  Its works correctly in both 6.5 and 7.0.
cause any confusion -- I think the poster is referring to something other
than series 500 -- as I believe the versions for series 500 went
5.11, 5.21, and then stopped at 5.3.

Hope this helps.


Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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