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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: ksh incompatabilities with sh?
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Date: 8 Jun 88 16:29:19 GMT
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   From: "William E. Davidsen Jr" <davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com>

   The biggest problem I've had in scripts and ksh is the use of ^ for a
   pipe. I hit this in some part of DWB (style? spell?) and fixed the
   script. There is something in the install scripts for vpix that breaks,
   too, but I just ran them under sh.

Do people *actually* still use ^ for pipes? This is the kind of thing
that should be eradicated from existence. 

	   bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
     {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
   "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
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