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From: reiner@estevax.UUCP (Reiner Plaum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Problem with SCO system V csh
Keywords: csh
Message-ID: <2317@estevax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 09:30:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.212809.21504@parc.xerox.com>
Reply-To: reiner@estevax.UUCP (Reiner Plaum)
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: Siemens AG Erlangen, Germany
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In article <1991Jun19.212809.21504@parc.xerox.com> jlevine@parc.xerox.com (James D. Levine) writes:
>In trying to move some of my cshell scripts from SunOS to SCO SysV 386, I've encountered an annoying problem.  My usual way of reading from stdin to a variable no longer works-
>set variable = $<
>Now it gives a variable syntax error.  Does anybody know a workable construct for SCO?

Incomprehensibley, the variable $< is not implemented in the SCO csh.
You have to use the explict commands line or gets, e.g:
set variable = `line`

Reiner.