Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: why does -vi- set the hi bit when expanding `%' and `#'?
Message-ID: <870@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 20:23:35 GMT
References: <8700002@gistdev> <450@oglvee.UUCP> <969@riddle.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>As I understand it, we finally get to say goodbye to bit seven internal
>quoting with the System V, release 4 version of the shell.  It's
>possible that it's been eliminated in V.3.1 and later as well.

Heck, it was eliminated in the V.3 Bourne shell; that's why the V.3.1
(maybe the V.3, I don't remember) "vi" doesn't use the 8th-bit-quoting
hack anymore when running commands.  (It doesn't do any quoting.)