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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: YABB (Yet Another Bourne Bug?)
Message-ID: <349@vu44.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 10:19:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 10:19:07 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 00:35:41 EDT
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Sometimes the bourne shell does one of the two following things
(on an 11/34 running V7M):
- Print ": is not an identifier"
- Throw away the last few chars of my last exported variable.
This seems to happen if I have a few shells nested, and have lots
of shell variables. (By the way, it happens as soon as I try to execute
a shell script, or start a sub-shell). I guess it is some kind of
memory problem, but I haven't got the nerves to poke around in the
bourne shell. 
 Has someone fixed this problem? Any ideas?

	Jack Jansen, {philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack