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From: keith@sequoia.execu.com (Keith Pyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: cshell bug?
Message-ID: <26897@sequoia.execu.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 17:52:33 GMT
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In article <1990Oct22.211323.21097@ariel.unm.edu> collier@triton.unm.edu (Michael Collier) writes:
>i execute the following piece of cshell under dynix 3.0.12:
> ...
>the shell is matching the "else" with the first, outermost "if", not with
>the second, nested "if". can anyone tell me if this is fixed under 3.0.17?
>if not, why not? thanks.

The behavior is unchanged in Dynix 3.0.17.  It also behaves this way
under SunOS 4.0 & 4.1 and System V/386 Release 3.00 on a Unisys
U6000/51.  It does not have a problem on either Ultrix 3.1 or HP/UX
7.0.

I'll refrain from commenting on why I think it wasn't fixed in 3.0.17.
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