Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: c-news expire problem and questions
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.174750.19269@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1104@massey.ac.nz> <1990Oct26.173652.805@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Oct29.045714.8306@massey.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 17:47:50 GMT

In article <1990Oct29.045714.8306@massey.ac.nz> K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
>... the mail I got informing me the -h option was being used
>on expire was empty.  This could be due to a bug I've heard about
>in some Bourne shells that won't let you pipe the result of ( ... )
>anywhere...

Curious; I'd never heard of that one before, and it would break an awful
lot of shell scripts.  It's not a generic Ultrix problem, since the code
from expire works fine on Ultrix on our 2100.
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