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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: \"+\" filename -> /bin/sh !
Message-ID: <2856@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 22:52:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 22:52:11 1987
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In article <6583@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <3351@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
> >	/bin/sh +
> >and get an interactive sh.
> 
> Any Bourne shell that does that is badly broken!

Not necessarily.  The use of '+' as a command line argument to the
Bourne shell is documented, at least in Sun OS 3.4 .  It works in the
oppositely manner of '-'; '-' turns on options, '+' turns them off.

Yes, logically '+' should turn on options but it's FAR too late to
change something like that now.

kyle jones  <kyle@odu.edu>  old dominion university, norfolk, va  usa