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From: albers@ka3ovk (Jon Albers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: What does this sh script line do?
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.172119.19494@ka3ovk>
Date: 6 Jun 91 17:21:19 GMT
Reply-To: albers@ka3ovk.UUCP (Jon Albers)
Organization: Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC
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In trying to get Cnews to compile on our UNISYS 5000/95, I have come upon
a problem with the shell scripts -- several of them have lines like:


. ${NEWSCONFIG-/usr/lib/news/bin/config}

It blows up on this line with the error 'Bad substitution', however, under
SCO UNIX, it work just fine.  What is it supposed to be doing?

								Jon

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