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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Apparent bug in 'make': hyphen treated as delimiter in $PATH
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 16:59:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 16:59:16 1985
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Actually, this odd behavior in exec[vl]p was there in V7 (not just in
make, but in the C-library exec[vl]p), although it was undocumented.
One wonders whether SysVr2 "make" is persisting in this because somebody
within AT&T has become dependent on it.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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