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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: vi with an 8-bit shell
Message-ID: <5751@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 88 00:38:22 GMT
References: <571@etive.ed.ac.uk> <575@sbsvax.UUCP> <594@etive.ed.ac.uk> <580@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <580@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
>>	*up++ = *fp++ | QUOTE;
>That was obvious, of course. What I meant was : "whatever is this
>QUOTE for?", and "will removing it break anything?".

Yes, the QUOTE is there for protecting shell metacharacters.  No, it won't
break anything else.  I recommend that you fix it now, even if you don't have
an 8-bit shell, because it'll save you time and agony later when you do.