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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ash internals: evalstring() calls
Message-ID: <1991Apr04.000145.201@am.sublink.org>
Date: 4 Apr 91 00:01:45 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
:I was trying to use ash for real work, but had to abandon it because it
:was quoting strings in places where the bourne shell left them unquoted
:and scripts kept breaking. Is this fixed in a recent version?

I don't know of any "recent version" - I hacked my changes right on
top of the version from comp.sources.unix volume 19.  Could you please
clarify what you mean by 'quoting strings'?  I'm not sure I understand
what you mean.  I have used mash (My ash) mostly for interactive work,
although it should indeed be faster than most sh's, what with the
builtin test+expr - but the latter should also guarantee a lack of
complete compatibility, so...

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