From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcsla!draper Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Title: csh bug: @ won't allow digits in the variable name to be set. Article-I.D.: sdcsla.246 Posted: Sun Jan 16 13:24:24 1983 Received: Fri Jan 21 08:06:48 1983 I have discovered, after a lot of puzzlement, that for example @ t1 = 3 * 4 gets a syntax error from csh because no digits are allowed in varible names in this command. Thus set t1 = 9 is OK, but @ t1 = 9 is not. Variable names with digits on the RHS are OK e.g. @ tt = $t1 + $t2 is OK. Apparently a bug in the line parsing routines. Steve Draper UCSD, San Diego ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcsla!draper draper@nprdc