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From: david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: sh(1) no longer imports IFS 
Message-ID: <4107@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 17:41:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 17:41:37 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jul-84 17:41:37 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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The shell has been changed to unconditionally set the environment variable
IFS on startup.  It is set to space, tab, newline.  IFS can still be changed
within a shellfile, but the changed value will not be known to any children
of that process.
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				David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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