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From: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: tcsh (version 5.4) bug/feature?
Message-ID: <106@gsg.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 17:38:41 GMT
Organization: General Systems Group, Inc., Salem, NH
Lines: 25
Keywords: tcsh bug shell

I dont know if anyone see/solve this problem but it broke my script which
was working under csh.

	--- tcsh ---			-- csh --

	1  > echo '\'			% echo '\'
	   Unmatched '.			\
	2  > echo '\\'			% echo '\\'
	   Unmatched '.			\\
	3  > echo '\A'			% echo '\A'
	   \A				\A
	4  > echo "\"			% echo "\"
	   Unmatched ".			\
	5  > echo "\\"			% echo "\\"
	   Unmatched ".			\\
	6  > echo \\			$ echo \\
	   \				\

Besides the above annoyance, if you type CTRL P to go up a line, for case
1, 2, 4, 5, the number of backslashes will be one less than what you typed.
Is this a bug?   It failed on both VAX-750 Unix 4.3 and Pyramid OSx 4.0.
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Paul Lew			{olivea,harvard,decvax}!gsg!lew	(UUCP)
General Systems Group, 5 Manor Parkway, Salem, NH 03079	(603) 893-1000