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From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Config won't deal with Options with numerics
Message-ID: <519@zinfandel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 02:21:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: zinfande.519
Posted: Wed Jul 23 02:21:29 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Aug-86 05:41:53 EDT
References: <518@zinfandel.UUCP> <1940@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA
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Keywords: 4.3BSD config options

In article <1940@sdcsvax.UUCP> muller@sdcsvax.UUCP (Keith Muller) writes:
>In article <518@zinfandel.UUCP>, berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) writes:
>> Subject: config cannot handle OPTIONS with numeric characters.

>Somewhere in that manual there is a note that says numeric options need to be
>enclosed in "". 
>	Keith Muller
>	University of California

Well, I went and looked in the manual again, and sure enough, there it is
buried at the bottom of the "makeoptions" descriptions on page 7.  The
CPU type paragraph seems to imply that the quotes are required.

OK, so I didn't rtfm well enough.  I still think there is no reason
why config should not be able to deal with numerics without having to 
quote them.  I'm going to leave my 'fix' installed.

  

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