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From: wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Re: C-Shell weirdness
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 17:50:23 EST
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> ... If you do
> 
> set hosed
> echo $#hosed
> 
> THEN you will get 0. The difference? A null string is different from no value
> at all. ...

Small problem: on my system (Ultrix 32m 1.1) the above gives 1, not 0.
No, I did an `unset hosed' first to make sure no garbage was left behind.
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